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In a twist Huawei sues for theft of trade secrets by employee
- Tuesday | 4th June, 2019
SHERMAN, Texas (Reuters) – A former engineering manager used Huawei Technologies Co Ltd trade secrets and lured away 24 of its employees to improperly build his startup company, a lawyer for the Chinese telecommunications firm told a Texas jury on Tuesday. Huawei sued former employee Ronnie Huang and his startup, CNEX Labs Inc, and Huang countersued saying that Huawei’s allegations against him and CNEX are tactics in a strategy Huawei uses to steal technology from others. In addition to showing identical spelling errors in Huawei and CNEX documents, Huawei lawyer Michael Wexler also played an excerpt from a video deposition in which another former employee admitted to copying 5,760 files from his work computer before leaving to join CNEX. “Think of the spelling mistakes as DNA,” Huawei attorney Wexler said in his opening statement to an eight-person jury in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Huawei is asking the court to award it at least $85.7 million in damages.
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