University researchers are continuing to work with China’s Huawei despite a federal ban on the use of the firm’s equipment in Canada’s 5G network being issued last May on security grounds, a parliamentary committee heard.
In a hearing on March 21 to study the impact of commercializing Canada’s intellectual property, the Standing Committee on Science and Research learned that university researchers are still working with the Chinese technology giant “in any form.”
“I have a patent assignment agreement here with me,” said Conservative MP Dan Mazier to professor Gail Murphy, vice-president of Research & Innovation at the University of British Columbia (UBC), who appeared as witness, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter….