Interesting news this week in the ever-expanding arena of intellectual property rights lawsuits: China-based Huawei sued China-based ZTE for patent and trademark infringements. The quick takeaways are a) Companies with a Chinese heritage like Huawei have become world-class technology and IPR leaders and b) contrary to sadly-lingering dated beliefs, such companies solidly appreciate the value of IPR’s, respecting those of others, and fighting to protect their own.
The less obvious takeaway is what would seem to be the demonstration that the hysterical advocates that persist in driving the yet-more-unfortunate and slanderously-perpetuated misperception that Huawei is somehow controlled by the Chinese Government are, at best, on crack.
Think about it: ZTE, by its own admission, is somewhere between 15-20% owned by organs of the Chinese Government. Huawei, privately held by its employees, is regularly and wrongly reputed to also be under some or another nefarious Red thumb. So… for those that purport to subscribe to this latter belief (and I say “purport” because I’m pretty sure that anyone with half a mind knows that it’s all bullsh*t, but some folk nevertheless maintain the charade in order to drive parochial xenophobic or anti-competitive agendas), Huawei suing ZTE would amount to the Chinese government suing itself. Really?
…but wait, having spent the better part of the last year learning how the average paranoid half-a-mind functions, could it all be a ploy, a marvelously Machiavellian machination?
I bet they’ll be thinking something like this: In an elaborate multi-decade plan, the Chinese Government manipulated Huawei’s R&D to ensure that Huawei would over the years invest in and develop and patent specific technologies after which the nefarious Reds arranged for ZTE to pirate the same technologies in order to set up a scenario years later in which Huawei would sue ZTE with the real goal having all the while been for Huawei to prove it is in fact not controlled by the Chinese government.
Yeah, right, and the White House faked Obama’s birth certificate (incidentally, that last comment was “not intended to be a factual statement”).
Whatever… At the end of the day, notwithstanding a decade of blended accidental and contrived misperceptions related to Huawei, the truth will ultimately out, and the truth is that Huawei defines the essence of tomorrow’s successful companies – a multinational technology leader strategically leveraging markets and minds across the planet to most efficiently deliver the highest quality technology, solutions and services.
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