Snack Bar Exec Emailed Trade Secrets To Himself
Hershey is suing a former exec who it claims took valuable trade secrets before leaving his job for a snack bar maker.
Hershey is suing a former exec who it claims took valuable trade secrets before leaving his job for a snack bar maker.
In a criminal trial, prosecutors for the now defunct fitness tracking company Jawbone are alleging the ex-employee stole studies the company considered its “crown jewels" before joining Fitbit.
The employees allegedly stole confidential information belonging to the company, including batch production control records for drug manufacturing, according to reports.
The company alleges a former employee violated company policy and betrayed its trust as he "intentionally decimated" its North American business.
It's the latest in a series of stories involving investigations of suspected intellectual property theft at medical schools and research laboratories.
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In a lawsuit filed last week, the company claims the ex-executive stole and retained confidential and trade secret data and lied to cover it up.
When he was first detained at the airport, the employee was found with six files containing trade secret data on a storage device connected to his laptop.
Yet another Chinese national - this time an employee at an Oklahoma petroleum company - has pleaded guilty to trade secret theft.
To combat the ongoing epidemic around IP theft, the U.S. Air Force recently announced plans to develop an internal group to better protect the USAF's "hard-won intellectual property."