A protracted-running dispute between Huawei Applied sciences Co. and a small U.S.-based contractor has escalated to U.S. federal courtroom, with the contractor alleging Huawei stole its expertise and pressured it to construct a “again door” right into a delicate law-enforcement challenge in Pakistan.
The contractor, Buena Park, Calif.-based Enterprise Effectivity Options LLC, or BES, says in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in California district courtroom that Huawei required it to arrange a system in China that provides Huawei entry to delicate details about residents and authorities officers from a safe-cities surveillance challenge in Pakistan’s second-largest metropolis of Lahore.