Category: trade secrets

Former Coca-Cola Employee Convicted of Stealing $120 Million Worth of Trade Secrets to Sell in China

April 23, 2021
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A Chinese-born American chemist was found guilty on April 22 for her role in a scheme to steal trade secrets worth an estimated $120 million from American companies for the purpose of setting up a Chinese company that would manufacture the product for the global market. After a 12-day trial, 59-year-old You Xiaorong—also known as…

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Researcher Sentenced to 33 Months in Prison for Stealing Trade Secrets from US Hospital

April 20, 2021
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A hospital researcher on April 19 was sentenced to 33 months in prison for conspiring to steal trade secrets from an Ohio children’s hospital to sell in China, according to the Justice Department. Zhou Yu, 51, pleaded guilty in December 2020 to stealing at least five trade secrets relating to exosome research from the Nationwide Children’s…

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Researcher Sentenced to 33 Months in Prison for Stealing Trade Secrets to Sell in China

April 20, 2021
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A hospital researcher on April 19 was sentenced to 33 months in prison for conspiring to steal trade secrets from an Ohio children’s hospital to sell in China, according to the Justice Department. Zhou Yu, 51, pleaded guilty in December 2020 to stealing at least five trade secrets relating to exosome research from the Nationwide Children’s…

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Chinese Researcher Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Stealing Trade Secrets

February 2, 2021
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A Chinese researcher was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Feb. 1 for conspiring to steal U.S. trade secrets and make a profit in China. Chen Li, 47, a former resident of Dublin, Ohio, worked at the Ohio-based Research Institute at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital from 2008 until 2018. Her husband, Zhou Yu, 50,…

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Chinese Researcher Gets Time Served for Lying About Taking Research Materials From Harvard

January 7, 2021
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A Chinese medical researcher flew back to China after he was sentenced to the time he spent in U.S. custody. Zheng Zaosong, 31, came to the United States on a J-1 visa in August 2018 and conducted cancer cell research at Harvard University’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He was arrested on Dec….

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