Huawei faces new accusations of industrial espionage. The Chinese group is accused by the US startup CNEX of stealing some of its technologies, reports Reuters. "Huawei has seized CNEX's confidential information and shared it with Huawei's SSD staff, in violation of the statements made to CNEX and the restrictions on the release of CNEX's technical information," said the California company. in a complaint filed with the Federal Court of Texas.
Huawei: after T-Mobile, CNEX accuses it of technology theft
To achieve his ends, Huawei would have recruited a certain Bo Mao, professor at the University of Xiamen. He allegedly asked CNEX to lend him a circuit board to help him with a research project. The startup has agreed to the signing of a confidentiality agreement. But the document would not have been respected. The academic would work with Huawei and the technical details of the component would have ended in the hands of the Chinese giant.
The American justice will therefore once again have to judge Huawei, who is already strongly suspected of having conducted a commando mission in the premises of the T-Mobile operator between 2012 and 2013 to try to recover technologies related to a robot robot ensuring the quality control of smartphones. In fact, we had published damning excerpts from Huawei that appeared to prove the doubts about the company.
Note that in 2017, Huawei filed a complaint against CNEX. One of the co-founders of the startup is Ronnie Huang, a former employee of a Huawei subsidiary in Texas. The Chinese group believes that CNEX's work is based on Huang's achievements when he was still working for Huawei and that according to a contract he had signed, Huawei could demand a right to the patents filed by the firm. The court has recently issued its verdict and rejected Huawei's request. On the other hand, another case is still in progress between the two actors: Huawei accuses Huang of indecently recruiting his former colleagues from Huawei to join CNEX.
