3Com has received the necessary US and UK export license approvals to license and share its technologies developed in the US and the UK with Huawei Technologies in connection with their joint venture which will have principal operations in China. The 3Com-Huawei joint venture plans to provide high-end data networking solutions to enterprise customers worldwide.
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- In March 2003, 3Com and Huawei Technologies said that they would form a joint venture based in Hong Kong with principal operations in Hangzhou, China. Huawei’s contribution to the JV will include enterprise networking business assets, including LAN switches, routers, engineering, sales/marketing resources and personnel, and licenses to its related intellectual property. 3Com’s contribution to the JV will include $160 million in cash, assets related to its operations in China and Japan, and licenses to its related intellectual property. The name of the joint venture will be 3Com-Huawei in English and Huawei-3Com in Chinese. 3Com said the JV would provide it with modular layer 2 and 3, 10/100/1000 MB switches. The JV and Huawei will also provide 3Com with a full line of enterprise routers.
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In January 2003, Cisco Systems filed a lawsuit against Huawei Technologies and its subsidiaries Huawei America and FutureWei Technologies alleging unlawful copying of Cisco’s intellectual property. In particular, the suit alleges that Huawei unlawfully copied and misappropriated Cisco’s IOS software, including source code, copied Cisco documentation and other copyrighted materials, and infringed numerous Cisco patents. Cisco claims that Huawei’s operating system contains a number of text strings, file names, and even bugs that are identical to those found in Cisco’s IOS source code.