Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/09/25
By: Wu Jui-chi and Kuan-lin Liu
Taipei, Sept. 25 (CNA) The Taoyuan District Prosecutors Office charged five people
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Monday for alleged distribution of trade secrets.
Five former employees of local firm Inotera Memories were charged with violations of the Trade Secrets Act, the Copyright Act, and the Criminal Code for allegedly taking classified documents from their former employer and passing them to a Chinese company last year.
According to prosecutors, five men, three of whom are surnamed Chang (張) and the others named Fan (范) and Chen (陳), were all management-level officials at Inotera Memories, now known as Micron Technology Taiwan after an acquisition that was completed last December. The five left the company between September and November last year.
Following Micron’s acquisition of Inotera Memories, the company suspected that the five, who were headhunted by a Chinese wafer producing company, stole classified company documents. [FULL STORY]
