Full-stack engineer building a better public square @nuprizm. Contributor @arcdigi, @ForeignPolicy and others
May 26, 2019 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
That industrial espionage and IP theft were a common practice at Huawei will shock no one that has experience working with Chinese factory partners. I’ve witnessed this countless times, and it’s pervasive enough to characterize it as part of the business culture in China.
We strived to minimize this type of behavior through detailed vendor agreements that explicitly laid out the protections for IP in advance of projects. Those were preventative measures, but we knew our potential for enforcement within China and other markets was essentially nil.
