- 14 former Huawei workers were sentenced to a prison for a secret flight
- The former engineers continued to work at the startup Wi-Fi Chip Zunpai
- Huawei was on both sides of the IP legal fence
A Shanghai court sentenced 14 former Huawei employees in prison for having stolen from flea -related commercial secrets, sending undulations to industry not only in China but also worldwide.
Employees worked for Zunpai Communication Technology – A startup founded BE Engineers from Histilicon, a Huawei unit.
The court issued prison conditions that could go up to six years and imposed new financial sanctions in a decision of July 28 which landed in favor of Huawei.
Shanghai Court imprisoned former engineers of Huawei on secret flight
After leaving Huawei in 2019, Zhang Kun, former researcher at Histilicon, founded Zunpai in 2021 and hired former colleagues. The startup was accused of using information owned by Huawei, despite the fact that the company has developed Wi-Fi communication fleas.
According to court documents in August 2023, the subsidiary of Huawei asked that the Shanghai intellectual property court was delighted assets under Zunpai and its subsidiaries valued at 95 million yuan.
The court’s decision was not made public online and Huawei made no public remark concerning the case. According to a Morning post in southern China Report, engineers can still have reasons to contest the decision.
More broadly, he reflects an increasing commitment to China towards the protection of the IP, the procurator of the supreme people of China indicating that 21,000 people were prosecuted criminally for IP crimes in 2024 only, including a nine -year penalty for the violation of the criminal copyright of the Lego bricks (via nine years of sentence for the violation of the criminal copyright (via for the violation of criminal copyright of LEGO Bricks (via the National law review).
For Huawai, however, it represents a reversal of roles. In 2019, the Shenzhen technology giant was charged with ten thefts of theft of Western technology, trying to steal secrets, wire fraud and obstruction to justice.
Techradar Pro contacted Huawei for a comment, but we did not receive an immediate response.
