Huawei sues Transsion holdings over IP theft in China


Transsion holdings

Transsion Holdings – the Chinese handset maker that recently got listed on China’s Nasdaq-style stock market has been slammed with a Lawsuit. The Lawsuit preferred against it by Huawei is that of an alleged intellectual property infringement. Huawei is reportedly claiming RMB 20 million from Transsion Holdings and five of its subsidiaries for patent right infringement.

Details of the patent infringement aren’t yet in the open, but a local court in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen accepted the case against Transsion Holdings and five of its subsidiaries over alleged intellectual property infringement so we should be haring more about the case in the coming weeks.

No official response from Huawei yet. However, Zhu Zhaojiang, chairman of Transsion, in his initial response told Chinese media YicaiĀ on Monday that he believes ā€œthe law will bring a fair responseā€ (our translation).

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Interestingly, the lawsuit from Huawei hasn’t in any way affected the company’s performance as it made its stock market debut earlier today. The company soared as 96% on its first day of trading on China’sĀ Nasdaq-style stock market, briefly pushing its valuation to $7.7 billion. And while it couldn’t maintain the temple, it closed up 64%, valuing Transsion at 46.24 billion yuan ($6.48 billion).

Transsion holdings is a little known in its home market of China but have gained quite a huge following in most of Africa’s market. The company operates under three smartphone brands in Africa including; Tecno, Itel, and Infinix. These brands according to data from research firm IDC havea combined 48.7% share of the mobile phone market in Africa last year.

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1 Comment

  1. Ahmed Salami
    October 1, 2019

    I knew this will happen from day one when infinix and tecno stretch out from africa by entering india market ,i knew this is gonna happen,negligible ip laws in most africa countries which help transsion alot in africa,remember good old days of nokia,whereby nokia accessories can work easily on tecno phones,u cant try dat in whitelands,u will never go scot free in trumps land,hmm time to pay ur boss transsion,u’ve made the name and alot of cash,or kuku pack out from india and hometown markets,hmm in my country we call this bad market,yawa don gas