Nokia Siemens Networks has no interest in Huawei trade secrets

On Monday January 24, 2011, Huawei filed a lawsuit in a U.S. District Court which it claimed was aimed at preventing Motorola from transferring its intellectual property to Nokia Siemens Networks.

Nokia Siemens Networks will not, at this stage, comment on the case in detail. However, the company wishes to make it clear that it has absolutely no interest in Huawei’s trade secrets.

On an internal blog for employees, Michael Matthews, head of strategy and business development at Nokia Siemens Networks said: “We have the best network technology in the world, implemented and managed by the best telecoms engineers in the world.”

Matthews went on to make clear that the deal with Motorola is about giving customers in the US, Japan and other countries an opportunity to experience Nokia Siemens Networks’ superior service and engineering firsthand, as well as obtaining Motorola technology where it does not have a presence, such as CDMA. In his own words, Matthews said the transaction “is absolutely not about getting access to confidential information on Huawei or its business. We don’t need that information, we don’t want it, and we fully respect the intellectual property rights of others.”

The message to Motorola customers and employees is that Nokia Siemens Networks remains committed to the deal. “Our original reasons remain our motivation: this is about expanding the base of customers that we can bring value to,” Matthews said.

Nokia Siemens Networks continues to work with the Chinese authorities to get the final anti-trust approval required to enable it to complete its acquisition of Motorola’s networks business.

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