Southern District of New York judge Lewis Kaplan has ordered Guo Xiaoming of the ZTE Corporation in China to appear in court in a long-running patent dispute with Vringo Inc., a week after ZTE revealed he fears being arrested in connection with a federal criminal investigation into the telecommunications technology maker's alleged sale of banned technology to Iran.

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Judge Kaplan said ZTE was attempting to seek the court’s aid to avoid providing federal law enforcement with information and possibly to avoid answering charges of violation of U.S. law, while simultaneously wanting the benefit from Mr Guo’s testimony to pursue its lawsuit against Vringo and defend against Vringo's own suit over a nondisclosure agreement. Sources: New York Law Journal; Law 360