Case library / 27 published
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Energy & advanced manufacturing
A customer owing more than $800 million recruited the head of its supplier’s automation engineering department, obtained proprietary source code, and used compiled versions in turbines.
Aerospace & defense
A Chinese Ministry of State Security officer recruited aviation employees through presentations and paid travel, then sought proprietary design-process information and access to a GE engineer’s company computer.
Energy & advanced manufacturing
A consulting company recruited retired DuPont engineers, assembled protected titanium-dioxide plant knowledge, and contracted to transfer it to Pangang projects in China.
Energy & advanced manufacturing
Limited access at Coca-Cola and Eastman exposed a chemist to suppliers' protected formulas; she copied files to personal storage while pursuing a government-supported coatings business in China.
Energy & advanced manufacturing
Two former employees of a Canadian automation manufacturer built a China-based equipment company and offered a prospective buyer a proposal containing their former employer's proprietary drawings.
AI, semiconductors & telecommunications
An engineer uploaded more than 2,000 pages of Google AI-infrastructure material to personal cloud storage while pursuing senior roles, investors, and a startup in China.
AI, semiconductors & telecommunications
A bench trial found that Hao Zhang and collaborators moved radio-frequency filter know-how from Avago and Skyworks into a Tianjin University-linked manufacturing venture.
AI, semiconductors & telecommunications
Hytera admitted that it hired Motorola personnel, directed the removal of proprietary digital-mobile-radio material, and used the information to develop competing products at a fraction of Motorola's development cost.
AI, semiconductors & telecommunications
T-Mobile admitted Huawei engineers to a protected test lab under nondisclosure agreements. A civil jury later found trade-secret misappropriation, while a related federal criminal prosecution remains unresolved.
Life sciences & research
A married research team used long-term laboratory access to take exosome-isolation methods, establish a company in China, seek government support, and sell products and services built from the hospital’s work.
Life sciences & research
Yu Xue copied roughly 200 GSK documents concerning products, research, and manufacturing and sent them to collaborators at Renopharma, a China-based company she helped create.
Agriculture & food systems
A Pioneer field manager found a stranger on his knees in an Iowa research plot, digging up corn. The license plate he recorded helped expose Mo Hailong's five-year effort to carry proprietary parent seed from Midwestern fields to a Chinese seed conglomerate.
Agriculture & food systems
The day after leaving Monsanto and The Climate Corporation, Haitao Xiang arrived at an airport with copies of a proprietary predictive farming algorithm and a one-way ticket to China.
Aerospace & defense
Su Bin used his aerospace knowledge to identify targets, select files, translate stolen material, and help turn intrusions into reports for a People's Liberation Army department.
Energy & advanced manufacturing
Foreign train makers accepted joint ventures and broad technology transfer to enter China's vast rail buildout. The contracts accelerated local production and helped cultivate CRRC as a state-owned competitor.
Agriculture & food systems
Kexue Huang held trusted biotechnology roles at two major agricultural companies. He admitted taking protected research from both employers, sending Dow material to collaborators in China and Germany and giving a Cargill secret to a Chinese university student.
Aerospace & defense
Dongfan “Greg” Chung built a long aerospace career at Rockwell and Boeing while collecting technical material for contacts in China. Investigators ultimately recovered more than 250,000 pages from his home.
Energy & advanced manufacturing
Xiaoqing Zheng used steganography to conceal GE turbine files inside the binary code of an ordinary-looking sunset image, then emailed the image to himself. A jury convicted him of conspiring to commit economic espionage.
Energy & advanced manufacturing
The day before resigning from Phillips 66, Hongjin Tan copied hundreds of research files to a thumb drive. Investigators found deleted copies and a second drive containing battery-development material.
AI, semiconductors & telecommunications
Jiaqiang Xu left a China-based software role with a complete copy of proprietary clustered-file-system source code. He modified it to conceal its origin, then demonstrated and offered the derivative software to undercover buyers.
Aerospace & defense
While seeking work at a state-run Chinese institute, Yu Long used sensitive United Technologies material to support his application, carried a drive of documents to China, and retained controlled military-engine records.
AI, semiconductors & telecommunications
A Taiwan semiconductor company pleaded guilty to stealing a Micron trade secret during work connected to Fujian Jinhua. Four years later, the federal judge found Jinhua not guilty on every criminal count.
AI, semiconductors & telecommunications
A 2021 federal indictment and joint cyber advisories attributed a multiyear intrusion campaign to officers of the Hainan State Security Department and a contractor front company. The defendants remain accused, not convicted.
Energy & advanced manufacturing
Shan Shi's Houston company hired former and current Trelleborg personnel, collected recipes and process information, and supplied a China-based partner with the know-how needed to make a specialized buoyancy material.
Energy & advanced manufacturing
Days after accepting a severance offer, General Motors engineer Shanshan Du copied thousands of files, including hybrid-motor source code and schematics. She and her husband then pursued a business relationship with Chery Automobile.
Energy & advanced manufacturing
After tours, photographs, and a recruitment advertisement failed to secure Pittsburgh Corning's cellular-glass know-how, Ji Li Huang and Xiao Guang Qi agreed to buy the formula and process from a person they thought was a corrupt insider.
AI, semiconductors & telecommunications
A Silicon Valley jury found that XTAL misappropriated computational-lithography source code and induced former ASML employees to breach their duties, allowing the startup to avoid years of research expense.
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