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Who owns Motorola?

Motorola is an American brand whose trademarks are owned by Motorola Trademark Holdings, LLC, a company owned by Motorola Mobility, which is a subsidiary of Lenovo Group Limited of Hong Kong. So Motorola phones come from a Lenovo-owned business. A separate American company, Motorola Solutions, Inc., uses the same name under licence for radio and public-safety systems; it is a licensee, not part of Lenovo.

United States connection

Direct

Origin
United States
Sourced connections
2
High confidenceLast checked Oct 2026

Key facts

Brand
Motorola
Founded
1928
Origin
United States
Owner
Motorola Trademark Holdings
Manufacturing
Unknown

Why Whownit classifies Motorola this way

  • Origin

  • Trademarks held by a US company

    Motorola Trademark Holdings, LLC owns the Motorola marks and licenses them to Motorola Solutions, Inc.

Sources: company filingsAll sources

Ownership snapshot

  1. Motorola

  2. owned by

    Motorola Trademark Holdings

    Motorola Trademark Holdings, LLC

  3. owned by
    Lenovo

    Lenovo Group Limited

  4. owned by

    Public shareholders

Owned by Motorola Trademark Holdings

Motorola is owned by Motorola Trademark Holdings, LLC, which is part of Lenovo. Lenovo is publicly traded.

Country connections

Each relationship is recorded separately, with its own sources.

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Sources

Primary sources are listed first. Facts on this page were last checked in Oct 2026.

  1. sec.gov

    Motorola Solutions, Inc. Form 10-K, fiscal year 2025 (opens in a new tab)
    SEC filingAccessed Oct 1, 2026

  2. sec.gov

    Motorola Solutions, Inc. Form 10-K, item 1 (opens in a new tab)
    SEC filingAccessed Oct 1, 2026

  3. news.lenovo.com

    Lenovo completes acquisition of Motorola Mobility from Google (opens in a new tab)
    CompanyAccessed Oct 1, 2026

Quick answers

Who owns Motorola?

Motorola is owned by Motorola Trademark Holdings, LLC, which is part of Lenovo. Lenovo is publicly traded.

Which country owns Motorola?

Motorola is owned by Motorola Trademark Holdings, which is based in the United States.

Where is Motorola from?

Motorola, Inc. was organised as an Illinois corporation in 1928. It separated into two businesses in 2011; Google bought the handset business in 2012 and sold it to Lenovo in 2014.

Is Motorola an American brand?

Whownit records 2 sourced connections between Motorola and the United States (Origin, Brand rights). At least one is direct — through the company itself.