U.S. recognizes Taiwan s efforts in trade secret protection
05/01/2021 03:56 PM
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Washington, April 30 (CNA) The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) recognized Taiwan s efforts in trade secret protection in the latest annual Special 301 Report released Friday.
In the first Special 301 Report released by U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai (戴琪) under the Biden administration, the USTR highlighted a recent case under the amended Trade Secret Act in which a court in Taiwan found that a Taiwanese semiconductor company and three former employees were guilty of stealing trade secrets from a U.S. company to enable the development of electronics chips by a Chinese state-owned enterprise.
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Apple sues former MacBook designer for allegedly selling trade secrets ANI | Updated: Mar 14, 2021 22:05 IST
Washington [US], March 14 (ANI): American multinational technology company Apple recently sued one of its former MacBook designers, alleging that he sold unreleased product details to a journalist in return for favorable coverage, after he left the company for a startup.
According to Mashable, Simon Lancaster had been Advanced Materials and Prototyping lead at Apple until he resigned in November 2019. The lawsuit accuses him of copying trade secrets from other projects so that he could supply them to an outside media correspondent , who is currently unnamed.
After he left Apple, Lancaster joined Arris Composites as Head of Consumer Products. The company developed a system that was called Additive Molding. In it composite structures could be manufactured with a mixture of continuously aligned fibers, electronics, and metallic componen
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Apple alleges that its former materials lead Simon Lancaster leaked trade secrets from the company to the media for favorable coverage of his new startup.