Huawei has launched a counterattack. As the U.S. has been pressuring its allies not to use Huawei in their project to build 5G mobile network, citing security threats.
According to Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post, Huawei recently filed a lawsuit against Verizon. The Chinese filed the lawsuit to the largest U.S. mobile carrier to pay patent fees.
In a lawsuit filed with a federal district court in Texas, Huawei demanded that Verizon pay a patent fee. For using many of its patented communications technologies in its telecommunications network.
Huawei’s chief legal officer Song Liuping issued a statement after filing the suit. Claiming that “Verizon has made very big profits with 12 patented technologies that Huawei developed through years of research and development.”
The 12 patents claimed by Huawei are confirmed to include several devices. Including ones that optimize bandwidth for data transmission, devices for signal transmission in optical transmission networks, systems that warn against malicious code unknown in the network environment, and ways to implement mobile device protection features.
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The two companies had met several times to negotiate patent fees until last month. But the two failed to reach a deal, according to the warden.
Huawei has been the center of a technical war between the U.S. and China. While trying to take the lead in establishing 5G network around the world.
The U.S. has insisted that Chinese government could use Huawei’s equipment as a conduit for Chinese intelligence activities. But Huawei has flatly denied the allegations. And insisted it will never spy for the Chinese government.
Verizon dismissed Huawei’s claim as “nothing but a public relations show.”
Verizon said, “With a surprise attack on our company and the entire IT ecosystem, Huawei’s real target is not Verizon, but all countries and companies that reject him.”
Huawei had previously asked Verizon to pay about 1 billion U.S. dollars. It is for the use of its more than 230 patented technologies in June last year.
Huawei holds about 80,000 patents worldwide, including more than 10,000 patents in the U.S., and spends 10-15 percent of its sales on R&D every year.