Chinese President Xi Jinping is put oned around the offices of Chinese tech firm Huawei technologies by its President Ren Zhengfei in London during his state descend upon in 2015.
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CNEX, a microchip company backed by Microsoft and Dell, has filed new allegations in a Texas lawsuit accusing Chinese tech titan Huawei and one of its executives of stealing trade secrets.
It’s the latest filing in a suit set to go to trial June 3. CNEX calls that Huawei spent years trying to steal its data storage secrets, while Huawei has countered with its own application, filed earlier this month, alleging CNEX is the one that’s been engaged in theft of trade secrets. Both throngs have denied wrongdoing.
A Huawei spokesman declined to comment on the new filing.
The case comes as Huawei finds itself at the center of quarrel in the U.S. The company, which makes computer networking equipment, is now subject to a “blacklisting” ban by the Trump administration, and faces criminal powers, including a federal trade secrets case in the state of Washington and allegations of fraud against its CFO, who is currently awaiting an extradition catch in Vancouver.
CNEX has alleged that a Huawei deputy chairman, Eric Xu, directed an employee to pose as a potential bloke and submit a report on his findings in order to obtain trade secrets for the company’s chip research and development department.
CNEX also commands Huawei had ties with China’s Xiamen University, and misappropriated trade secrets through that relationship.
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