same federal judge, Amos Mazzant III, who is
assigned to a Huawei lawsuit against the U.S.
government. Huawei says that a ban on federal
agencies and contractors buying its equipment
is unconstitutional.
Cnex General Counsel Matthew Gloss called
Huawei a “bully,” saying, “We’re a small company.
We didn’t seek this fight .... They wanted to shut
us down.”
In a statement, Huawei called the Cnex ruling a
“mixed verdict” and said it was considering its
next steps.
Cnex, which has financial backing from Microsoft
and Dell Technologies, works on solid-state drives,
the types of storage common in smartphones
and other popular devices. They start faster and
are more reliable than traditional hard disks,
though they are typically more expensive.
Huawei said Huang started Cnex three days
after leaving Huawei’s Futurewei unit in 2013
and began filing patent applications less than
a month later based on work he did there.
Huawei also accused Huang of poaching
its employees and alleged that one was
caught downloading thousands of pages of
confidential Huawei documents.
The jury found that Huang did violate a
contract provision regarding disclosing patent
applications, but it awarded no damages after
concluding Futurewei didn’t prove harm.
Lawyers for San Jose, California-based Cnex
countered that Futurewei hired Huang in
2011 as a pretext to steal his ideas. In court
documents, Cnex accused Huawei Deputy
Chairman Eric Xu of directing an effort to
reverse-engineer Cnex technology. Huawei
lawyers denied the accusation.
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