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Motorola sued Chinese mobile manufacturers Huawei for theft of trade secrets. The Chinese firm said that there was no ground for legal action and that they would defend their integrity in court.

The United States mobile manufacturers had earlier in 2008 filed suit against five of their former employees on accusations that they had shared company trade secrets with Lemko.

Lemko is further known to have a reseller agreement with Huawei and was also named in the suit filed.

On July 16, Motorola spokesperson claimed that an engineer had passed on Motorola trade secret about its transceivers and other information to Ren Zhengfei – Huawei founder. They also claimed that Huawei had received a string of top secret emails that were clearly labeled as Motorola secrets, thus, they said, that the officers of Huawei knew of this illegal activity.

Huawei however defended itself saying that Motorola had no evidence and that they were all prepared to face them in court. They said that they did not have any relationship with Lemko, apart from the reseller agreement.

The basis of this whole case revolves around the Lemko allegation.

The two mobile manufacturing giants were once intense rivals in the Chinese mobile market, however over time, their functions and niche areas of focus began to differ. The Huawei brand is all set to introduce itself on the street and cross the road to the Western markets. Speculations are being murmured as to whether this had anything to do with Motorola’s retort to legal action.

Cisco System’s earlier in 2004 had sued Huawei for the same reason, however had decided to draw out of the case, after Huawei made changed to its products.

China is known for its vibrant piracy issue and Chinese firms, whether, guilt or not, are often assumed to be guilty, simply because of their background.