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发帖数: 666 | 2 Anyone has the full story? Can you post it here? | l******a
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WASHINGTON--The Justice Department accused six Chinese citizens, including
three professors, of conspiring to steal sensitive wireless technology from
U.S. companies.
The six individuals allegedly worked together to bring trade secrets
relating to thin-film bulk acoustic resonator technology from U.S. companies
Avago Technologies (AVGO) and Skyworks Solutions Inc. (SWKS) back to China'
s Tianjin University, according to an indictment unsealed late Monday. They
then set up a joint venture with the university to produce and sell
equipment using the technology, according to the indictment, and won
contracts to sell it to both businesses and the military.
"Sensitive technology developed by U.S. companies in Silicon Valley and
throughout California continues to be vulnerable to coordinated and complex
efforts sponsored by foreign governments to steal that technology," San
Francisco U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag, whose office is prosecuting the case,
said in a news release Tuesday.
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发帖数: 178 | 4 A federal grand jury has indicted six Chinese citizens for what authorities
say was a long-running conspiracy to steal valuable technology from two U.S.
firms for the benefit of the Chinese government.
The indictment, unsealed Monday, highlights the threat posed by insiders who
use their position to steal sensitive information on behalf of a foreign
government or for financial gain and is part of a larger trend by the U.S.
government to step up efforts to deter Chinese theft of trade secrets.
It is also a manifestation of the ongoing innovation war between China and
the United States and could increase tensions in an already-fraught
relationship.
“According to the charges in the indictment, the defendants leveraged their
access to and knowledge of sensitive U.S. technologies to illegally obtain
and share U.S. trade secrets with the [People’s Republic of China] for
economic advantage,” said Assistant Attorney General John Carlin, head of
the national security division. “Economic espionage imposes great costs on
American businesses, weakens the global marketplace and ultimately harms U.S
. interests worldwide.”
[Read the full indictment]
One of the six defendants, Hao Zhang, 36, was arrested on Saturday at Los
Angeles International Airport. He had flown from China to the United States
to speak at a conference.
Zhang and two other defendants had obtained engineering degrees from the
University of Southern California and then secured jobs at high-tech firms.
The other three remained in China and were alleged to be part of the
conspiracy in which the defendants set up a company in China to profit off
stolen U.S. technology that filters wireless signals in cell phones and
other mobile devices.
At the university, Zhang and Wei Pang, 35, had conducted research on thin-
film bulk acoustic resonator, or FBAR, technology with U.S. Defense
Department funding. After earning their doctorates in 2005, Pang was hired
as an FBAR engineer at Avago Technologies in Colorado. Zhang took a job as
an FBAR engineer at Skyworks Solutions in Massachusetts.
The 32-count indictment alleges that beginning in 2006, Zhang and Pang and
their co-conspirators developed a business plan and began soliciting Chinese
universities seeking partners in establishing a business using the FBAR
technology.
The government alleges that the men carried out their plan with the intent
of benefiting the Chinese government and Tianjin University, a state school;
a university investment arm called Tianjin Micro Nano Manufacturing Tech;
the government’s Tianjin Economic Development Area; and ROFS Microsystems,
a joint venture between the investment arm and the defendants.
[Past coverage: China removes top U.S. tech firms from government purchasing
list]
According to the indictment, in 2006, Huisui Zhang, a third defendant and
USC classmate, e-mailed Pang and Hao Zhang his notes from a planning meeting
for creating a factory in China. One section of the notes was titled: “
Moving Avago to China.”
In another e-mail, Pang told a former USC colleague who was also a Chinese
citizen that “the filter market for cell-phone [sic] alone is estimated to
be more than $1 billion in 2005,” according to the indictment.
In yet another e-mail, Pang told his colleagues that they could beat
competitors because they would save “a lot” of money by not having to
conduct research and development, according to the indictment.
In 2008, Tianjin University officials agreed to finance the defendants’
establishment of a factory, the indictment says. In 2009, Pang and Hao Zhang
quit their jobs with Avago and Skyworks and accepted positions as
professors at Tianjin.
Also in 2009, at the university’s direction, Pang set up a shell company in
the Cayman Islands to appear to be the legitimate source of the stolen
trade secrets, according to the indictment.
In 2008 and in 2009, the government alleged, Pang and Zhang e-mailed each
other a series of files, slides and documents containing Avago and Skyworks
trade secrets. The secrets allegedly stolen included pricing details,
silicon etching techniques, tool specifications and design kits.
In 2009 and 2010, according to the indictment, Zhang and Pang filed patent
applications in the United States based on stolen Avago and Skyworks
technologies and listed themselves as either sole inventors or co-inventors.
In 2011, the men launched ROFS Microsystems. Later that year, the government
alleged, Avago became aware of Pang’s thefts after it saw the patent
applications. In late 2011, Pang’s former boss, Rich Ruby, traveled to
China to attend a conference. While there, he visited Tianjin University to
see Pang and Zhang’s new lab. He recognized it was using stolen Avago
technology. He confronted Pang and another defendant, Jinping Chen, the
university’s assistant dean, and accused them of stealing and using the
company’s trade secrets.
Pang denied having any company to sell FBAR technology. Chen e-mailed Ruby
that the university was not making use of any patented technologies that
Ruby mentioned.
Also indicted were Zhao Gang, ROFS general manager, and Chong Zhou, a
Tianjin University graduate student who worked with Pang and Zhang and
allegedly altered documents containing Avago trade secrets.
All were charged with conspiracy to commit economic espionage and conspiracy
to commit theft of trade secrets. Zhang, Pang and Zhou were also charged
with economic espionage and theft of trade secrets.
The case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco
, in consultation with the Justice Department’s counterespionage section.
Ellen Nakashima is a national security reporter for The Washington Post. She
focuses on issues relating to intelligence, technology and civil liberties. | k*********o
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发帖数: 178 | 6 From justice.gov
The six indicted defendants include:
Hao Zhang, 36, a citizen of the PRC, is a former Skyworks employee and a
full professor at Tianjin University. Zhang is charged with conspiracy to
commit economic espionage, conspiracy to commit theft of trade secrets,
economic espionage and theft of trade secrets. Zhang was arrested upon
entry into the United States on May 16, 2015.
Wei Pang, 35, a citizen of the PRC, is a former Avago employee and a full
professor at Tianjin University. Pang is charged with conspiracy to commit
economic espionage, conspiracy to commit theft of trade secrets, economic
espionage and theft of trade secrets.
Jinping Chen, 41, a citizen of the PRC, is a professor at Tianjin University
and a member of the board of directors for ROFS Microsystems. Chen is
charged with conspiracy to commit economic espionage and conspiracy to
commit theft of trade secrets.
Huisui Zhang (Huisui), 34, a citizen of the PRC, studied with Pang and Zhang
at a U.S. university in Southern California and received a Master’s Degree
in Electrical Engineering in 2006. Huisui is charged with conspiracy to
commit economic espionage and conspiracy to commit theft of trade secrets.
Chong Zhou, 26, a citizen of the PRC, is a Tianjin University graduate
student and a design engineer at ROFS Microsystem. Zhou studied under Pang
and Zhang, and is charged with conspiracy to commit economic espionage,
conspiracy to commit theft of trade secrets, economic espionage and theft of
trade secrets.
Zhao Gang, 39, a citizen of the PRC, is the General Manager of ROFS
Microsystems. Gang is charged with conspiracy to commit economic espionage
and conspiracy to commit theft of trade secrets. | b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 7 In 2009 and 2010, according to the indictment, Zhang and Pang filed patent
applications in the United States based on stolen Avago and Skyworks
technologies and listed themselves as either sole inventors or co-inventors.
This is bullshit. 能专利的东西怎么会是偷的东西？
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发帖数: 975 | 8 管他娘，中国也抓一批美国国籍的
inventors.
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: In 2009 and 2010, according to the indictment, Zhang and Pang filed patent
: applications in the United States based on stolen Avago and Skyworks
: technologies and listed themselves as either sole inventors or co-inventors.
: This is bullshit. 能专利的东西怎么会是偷的东西？
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