Motorola Solutions

Motorola Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MSI) is a Chicago-based public company headquartered at 500 W. Monroe St. It is the Delaware-incorporated successor to Motorola, Inc., organized in 1928 in Illinois; the company renamed itself Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, when Motorola split into Motorola Mobility and the government/enterprise communications business. Fortune lists roughly 23,000 employees and FY2025 revenue of about $11.7 billion; its 10-K reports two segments (Products and Systems Integration; Software and Services). It is an operating company, not a licensor shell.

Operations. Motorola Solutions builds safety and security technology across three product lines: Land Mobile Radio Communications (infrastructure, two-way radio and broadband devices, including P25, TETRA and DMR systems); Video Security and Access Control (fixed, body-worn and in-vehicle cameras, access control, video management and AI analytics, including the Avigilon line); and Command Center (911 call handling, computer-aided dispatch, records and evidence management, and interoperability software). It sells on-premises, cloud and hybrid software plus managed, cybersecurity and support services to public safety agencies and enterprise customers.

Litigation posture. Our database shows one tracked case, in which Motorola Solutions is the defendant and has never been the plaintiff. That is the classic profile of a large operating company absorbing infringement claims rather than asserting patents offensively. The sole tracked matter, Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Motorola Solutions, was filed by Cedar Lane Technologies — a Canadian entity incorporated in 2019 that acquired patents originating with Intellectual Ventures and is characterized as a non-practicing entity by Unified Patents and Stanford's NPE Litigation Database.

Case context. The Stanford NPE database records Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Motorola Solutions, Inc., No. 6:22-cv-01111 (W.D. Tex.), an October 2022 suit before Judge Alan D. Albright asserting imaging-related patents (US 6,473,527 and US 6,972,790). Cedar Lane voluntarily dismissed it in December 2022. A prior Cedar Lane suit against Motorola in the Northern District of Illinois (No. 1:20-cv-03600, June 2020) was likewise voluntarily dismissed without prejudice. Cedar Lane filed hundreds of similar suits against technology and consumer-electronics defendants, clustering in the Western District of Texas.