Textron Wins Handover of DJI Source Code in Drone Patent Fight

Chinese drone maker SZ DJI Technology Co. Ltd. must turn over portions of source code it was trying to shield in a patent fight with Textron Innovations Inc., which has accused DJI of stealing its drone-control technology.

US District Judge Robert W. Schroeder III of the Eastern District of Texas’s Marshall division ordered DJI on Wednesday to produce the requested source code despite DJI’s claims that doing so could expose it to “severe administrative and/or criminal penalties under Chinese law.”

“Even though between a ‘legal rock and a hard place,’ the defendants cannot enter the US market expecting a ...