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Chinese telecom giant Huawei and a Silicon Valley start-up are fighting it out in a Texas federal court.
Earlier today, CNEX Labs, a semiconductor and software application business headquartered in San Jose, California, and its co-founder Yiren Ronnie Huang implicated Huawei and its subsidiary Futurewei of taking CNEX’s innovation, according to the Wall StreetJournal A Huawei legal representative apparently rejected the claims.
This comes amidst a continuous legal fight in between the celebrations. Huawei submitted a match versus CNEX and Huang, a previous worker at Huawei, of taking its innovation and required info about CNEX’s work. It’s likewise the current drama for Huawei, which deals with examination from the United States federal government as a prospective security danger.
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The lawsuits centered on Huang and the solid-state disk storage technology found in thumb drives, your smartphone or sleeker laptops. Compared to traditional magnetic disk drives, SSDs have no moving mechanical components, run silently and have strong resistance to physical shock, but are more costly.
Huang is a Chinese-born US citizen working in Silicon Valley. He joined Futurewei in 2011 to research technologies such as SSD and to monitor industry trends. Huang left Futurewei in 2013 and co-founded CNEX Labs, according to the lawsuit. Huawei said it found its trade secrets used in some of Huang’s patent applications, which breached Huang’s employment and confidentiality contract with Huawei and Futurewei.
In response, CNEX and Huang accused Huawei and Futurewei of trying to obtain Huang’s intellectual property by hiring him and pressuring him to sign an employment agreement with unlawful terms as a way to steal CNEX’s trade secrets in a multiyear scheme, according to the lawsuit.
CNEX and Huawei’s lawyers didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
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