Chinese smartphone brands Xiaomi, Huawei in rare public spat over foldable patent as competition heats up

Huawei’s chief executive of consumer products, Richard Yu, said ‘some competitors took our intellectual property and renamed it as their own’. Xiaomi refuted the Huawei executive’s comments, saying they were ‘completely out of line with facts’ and were ‘misleading the public’. — SCMP

Xiaomi and Huawei Technologies have become embroiled in a rare public spat over a foldable phone patent, a sign of intensified competition in China’s smartphone market.

The dispute originated last Saturday when Huawei’s chief executive of consumer products, Richard Yu Chengdong, said “some competitors took our intellectual property and renamed it as their own”, without naming any company.