International Business News - Secrets http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif A former Intel Corp. engineer has been charged with stealing trade secrets worth $1 billion from the chip maker while he worked for its main rival, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081106/amd-employee-charged-with-stealing-intel-secrets.htm Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:53:04 EST The wife of an engineer who exported U.S. defense technology to China has been sentenced in California to prison for her role in the plot. Rebecca Laiwah Chiu was sentenced Thursday in federal court to three years in prison after pleading guilty last year to acting as an unregistered foreign agent. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081002/engineers-wife-sentenced-in-military-secrets-case.htm Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:54:56 EDT Federal prosecutors in Detroit say three ex-employees of auto parts supplier Metaldyne Corp. have pleaded guilty in a plot to steal trade secrets and sell them to Chinese competitors. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080916/ex-metaldyne-employees-plead-in-trade-secrets-case.htm Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:00:44 EDT A Wake County judge has awarded more than $57 million to a Durham drug development company after finding that a former employee stole trade secrets and passed them on to Chinese drug companies. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080905/nc-judge-awards-57-million-to-durham-drug-company.htm Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:21:07 EDT A federal jury convicted a retired University of Tennessee professor Wednesday of passing sensitive information from a U.S. Air Force contract to two foreign research assistants from China and Iran. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/121714-professor-secrets.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080903/tenn-professor-guilty-of-passing-military-secrets.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080903/tenn-professor-guilty-of-passing-military-secrets.htm Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:20:47 EDT A retired University of Tennessee professor accused of passing secrets from his work on a U.S. Air Force contract to two foreign graduate students testified Friday that he didn't break the law because he hadn't even proven that his research worked. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080829/ex-tenn-professor-denies-he-violated-secrets-law.htm Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:43:19 EDT A retired University of Tennessee engineering professor went on trial, accused of passing secrets from his work on a U.S. Air Force contract to two foreign graduate students, one from China and the other from Iran. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080826/professor-accused-of-passing-secrets-on-trial.htm Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:05:37 EDT A retired University of Tennessee engineering professor went on trial Monday, accused of passing secrets from his work on a U.S. Air Force contract to two foreign graduate students, one from China and the other from Iran. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080825/trial-opens-for-professor-accused-of-passing-secrets.htm Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:19:51 EDT A Tennessee company has pleaded guilty to illegally providing military secrets to a Chinese citizen, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Wednesday. Atmospheric Glow Technologies Inc. and retired University of Tennessee professor J. Reece Roth were indicted in May on 18 counts related to violating the Arms Export Control Act and trying to defraud the U.S. Air Force. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080820/company-pleads-guilty-in-military-secrets-case.htm Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:12:14 EDT Frank "The German" Schweihs, reputedly one of Chicago's most feared mob enforcers, has died while awaiting trial on charges he took part in a conspiracy that included numerous organized crime murders. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/97333-family-secrets.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/reputed-mobster-frank-the-german-schweihs-dies.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/reputed-mobster-frank-the-german-schweihs-dies.htm Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:26:20 EDT An executive who worked at IBM Corp. for nearly a decade pleaded guilty Friday to stealing trade secrets about the company's pricing and trying to pass them off to his superiors at rival Hewlett-Packard Co. when he took a job there. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080711/fmr-hp-exec-pleads-guilty-in-trade-secrets-case.htm Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:55:01 EDT More than $3.2 million in damages have been awarded to an energy finance company that sued two men who disclosed the company's proprietary information. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/judge-awards-millions-to-neb-energy-company.htm Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:05:55 EDT A Washington Times reporter has been subpoenaed by a federal judge who wants him to reveal the sources for a story he wrote about an engineer convicted of conspiracy to export U.S. defense technology to China. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080531/judge-wants-reporter-to-reveal-sources-in-spy-case.htm Sat, 31 May 2008 18:23:55 EDT A retired University of Tennessee professor has pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to provide military secrets to a Chinese graduate student. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080527/ut-professor-pleads-not-guilty-in-secrets-case.htm Tue, 27 May 2008 16:35:46 EDT A retired University of Tennessee professor is accused of conspiring to provide military secrets to a Chinese graduate student. J. Reece Roth was indicted Tuesday on 18 charges related to violating the Arms Export Control Act and trying to defraud the U.S. Air Force. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080520/retired-univ-of-tenn-professor-accused-of-passing-secrets.htm Tue, 20 May 2008 20:56:56 EDT The Norwegian unit of the Scandinavian Airlines System was ordered to pay 132 million kroner ($26.4 million) in compensation to smaller rival Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA on Tuesday in a civil suit over stealing trade secrets. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080520/sas-norway-ordered-to-pay-compensation.htm Tue, 20 May 2008 12:24:24 EDT