Battery Manufacturer Alleges Scientist Took Trade Secrets to China
In a new lawsuit, a U.S. based battery company is alleging one of its former employees brazenly took its trade secrets and infringed its patents.
In a new lawsuit, a U.S. based battery company is alleging one of its former employees brazenly took its trade secrets and infringed its patents.
Prosecutors in the U.S. are pursuing criminal charges against a Chinese professor after he purportedly took trade secrets to benefit Huawei. The case is yet another instance of the Department of Justice taking its investigation around Huawei, not to mention the theft of trade secrets, seriously.
The team will be tasked with better protecting U.S. IP from data theft; it will also issue and oversee new policies around data rights and how military IP is allocated in the DoD's contracting and acquisition stages.
It's believed the suspect, a software engineer, took the trade secrets with him to China, where he now resides.
A new bill introduced in the Senate this week would restrict U.S. tech exports to China and crack down on intellectual property theft.
This company protected its sensitive data with biometric thumbprint scanner but still managed to suffer trade secret theft after a former director of research allegedly stole gigabytes of data on its recipes.
In a complaint, filed Friday, one company is alleging a former employee took screen shots of trade secrets, including proprietary wireframes and a proposed regional launch timeline of its services, before leaving for another real estate technology competitor.
The manufacturer, which recently won an intellectual property case involving the theft of proprietary algorithms, source code, and programming language scripts, doesn't deny it was a victim of corporate theft but disagrees with the implication it was "Chinese espionage."
Like many companies developing self-driving car technology, Tesla and its embattled CEO Elon Musk continue to fight data theft within its ranks.
Prosecutors say that as part of a conspiracy to steal trade secrets, the Chinese-born scientist stole data related to bisphenol-A-free food packaging worth $120M.