A U.S. startup company is accusing Chinese telecommunications gear provider Huawei of enlisting a Chinese university professor working on a research project to improperly access the startup’s technology, according to court documents filed last week.
California-based CNEX, which is developing technology to enhance the performance of solid-state drives in data centers, has been locked in a dispute with Huawei Technologies Co. since 2017. In a new set of counterclaims filed in federal court in Texas last week, CNEX claimed that Bo Mao, a professor at Xiamen University, asked for one of the company’s circuit boards as part of a research project.
