Strategies For Fighting Global Trade Secret Theft

Law360, New York (September 28, 2012, 2:17 PM ET) -- Trade secret misappropriation by foreign entities is now common front-page news. Over the past few months, headlines have ranged from a four-year prison sentence given to a former Motorola Inc. software engineer for misappropriating Motorola’s telecommunications technology to benefit a foreign competitor, to a 20-year injunction barring a South Korean company, Kolon Industries Inc., from manufacturing a synthetic fiber built with trade secrets from DuPont Co.

In May 2012, the Federal Bureau of Investigation began a billboard campaign in major American cities to encourage employees to...
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