Ren Zhengfei apologizes for daughter Yao Anna’s private use of public power

On the evening of February 3, huawei founder Ren Zhengfei was on the top of the search list for “apology” – Ren Zhengfei apologized to all employees in Huawei’s internal voice community for registering the trademark of Anna Yao, admitting that it was a private use of public power.

Ren Zhengfei’s second daughter, Anna Yao, previously announced her entry into the entertainment industry, and recently the mainland media discovered from the Commercial Registration Information Application that Huawei Technologies Co. After the incident came to light, a few days ago, in Huawei’s internal heart community on the registration of Yao Anna trademark incident to all employees to apologize.

The content of the announcement said that Yao Siwei is Ren Zhengfei’s daughter, and Yao Anna is her stage name. As some companies or individuals in the society maliciously grabbed the trademark of Yao Anna, it was feared that it would cause disadvantage. According to the regulations, Chinese citizens must use the name of a company or hold an individual business license before they can apply for a registered trademark. And Yao Anna has just graduated and has not registered her own company, so Ren entrusted the company’s Intellectual Property Department to register as an agent and later transfer it to Yao Anna’s studio at her expense.

Recently, the Sky Eye App shows that Huawei has added a number of “Yao Anna”, “Yao Siwei”, “YAO ANNA”, “YAO SIWEI” “Annalbel Yao” trademark information, product categories covering jewelry and watches, Food, communication services, etc..

The netizens have been talking about Ren Zhengfei’s private use of public power, using Huawei’s company to apply for registration of multiple companies for his daughter: “What private use of public power? Huawei is Ren Zhengfei’s, where is the public power?”

“Huawei registered Yao Anna trademark, Ren Zhengfei can not be exempt ah!”

“The chip supply problem is solved? There is still the heart to do this and that for his daughter.”

“Not interested in her (Yao Anna), this operation only feels like a brush with heat for her.”

At 10:00 a.m. on January 14, the microblogging account “Tianhao Shengshi Entertainment” announced Yao Anna’s debut, welcoming her to “Tianhao Shengshi”. The news was immediately followed by Yao Anna’s retweet, saying that it was a special birthday gift for her, and that she would not fail to love her future peers. The news was also once on the Sina Weibo hot search list.

For Yao Anna’s future, Ren Zhengfei has said that he is very concerned about his daughter’s future and has personally gone to the agency for this matter to learn more about the specific plan.

According to reports, Ren has two marriages and three children, but none of them take their father’s surname, instead they all take their mother’s surname. The eldest daughter, Meng Wanzhou, and the second son were born to Ren and his ex-wife, Meng Jun.

The first daughter, Meng Wanzhou, is the second son of Ren and his ex-wife, Meng Jun. Anna Yao was born in another Marriage of Ren Zhengfei, and her mother’s name is Yao Ling. Anna Yao, now 23, reportedly worked as an intern at BrainCo, a Boston technology company, where she was involved in developing smart prosthetics.