NANOPOWDER:Prosecutors said former employees of a nanotech company cost the firm NT$2.6bn by stealing the technology and starting a firm based in China

Taipei Times
Date: Jul 28, 2016
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter

Judicial authorities yesterday said that they have charged

An officer of the National Police Agency’s Second Special Police Corps in Tainan yesterday announces that police have cracked an industrial espionage case involving Hsin Fang Nano Technology Co. Photo: Huang Chien-hua, Taipei Times

five men who allegedly stole intellectual property from a Tainan nanotechnology company and set up competing nanotechnology plants in China with breaching the Trade Secrets Act (營業秘密法).

The Second Special Police Corp, under the National Police Agency, announced details of the investigation yesterday, saying it is the first investigation and prosecution under the act since it was implemented in 2013.     [FULL  STORY]