China’s Huawei has applied to trademark its “Hongmeng” operating system (OS) in at least nine countries and Europe, according to data from a UN World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), in a sign the company is deploying a back-up plan in key markets as US sanctions threaten its business model, said Reuters.
Huawei – the world’s biggest maker of telecoms network gear – has filed for a Hongmeng trademark in countries such as Cambodia, Canada, South Korea and New Zealand, data from the UN body shows. It also filed an application in Peru on May 27, according to the country’s anti-trust agency Indecopi.
Huawei has a back-up OS in case it is cut off from US-made software, Richard Yu, CEO of the firm’s consumer division, told German newspaper Die Welt in an interview earlier this year.