Ren Zhengfei: Core Areas Are the Most Important in IP Independent Innovation

Ren Zhengfei, founder of Huawei and several senior executives of Huawei were interviewed by CCTV, People’s Daily, Xinhua News Agency, Global Times, the Paper, Guancha and other Chinese media at the Chinese Media Roundtable held in the Shenzhen headquarter of Huawei on May 21.

Asked about the 90-day delayed ban on Huawei by the US, Ren answered, “The 90-day delayed ban won’t have a severe impact on Huawei and we’re ready for challenges. We should concentrate on our own business rather than what the US government does.”

On May 16, the DOC of the US listed Huawei and its affiliated companies into its Entity List. At the dawn of May 17, He Tingbo, CEO of HiSilicon affiliated to Huawei said in his letter that HiSilicon would launch its Plan B to ensure the strategic security and continuous supplies of its most products. Ren Zhengfei stated in this interview that some of Huawei’s marginal products lack of Plan B. Although this would have some impact, it won’t happen to Huawei’s most advanced fields, at least not to the 5G technology. He also said that Huawei was hard to surpass, at least in two or three years.

Concerned with the independent innovation of IP, it was introduced by Ren Zhengfei that HiSilicon didn’t start its independent innovation from scratch but paid a lot of IP expenses and signed several cross-licensing contracts with other companies, some of which were permanently authorized. Their innovation was benefited a lot from others’ achievements as a pattern of reciprocality. Ren stated that scientific innovation was a work standing on the giants. “We agree to encourage independent innovation with a clarified definition. Any product can’t be used until it pays to the original, which is a legal common sense,” said Ren Zhengfei.

During the interview, Ren also appealed to the media that it was the US politicians to blame rather than the US enterprises. The US enterprises have contributed a lot to Huawei for 30 years, which were justified and conscientious for their busy preparing goods at such a time of crisis. But the US enterprises shouldn’t break the law to sell their products to Huawei, who was listed to the Entity List, without the permission of the US government. Huawei and US enterprises are the main subjects of market economies that share the same future.

May 29, 2019

Source: China IP Magazine

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