1. The US promulgated the Economic Espionage Act in 1996, making the theft or misappropriation of trade secrets a federal crime under commercial espionage.
2. Motorola accused Huawei of civil conspiracy and " threatened or actual " misappropriation of trade secrets and demanded the return of all proprietary trade secrets and damages.
3. Dow's former employee is accused of economic espionage in that he obtained trade secrets which he allegedly shared with Chinese researchers.
4. The alleged trade secrets refer to semiconductor fabrication operations and the manufacturing integrated circuits.
5. Chinese companies that don't have intelligence networks can neither gather information on their competitors nor have the wherewithal to protect their trade secrets.
6. The case involves four employees of Rio in its Shanghai office, who face years of imprisonment if convicted of trade secrets infringement and bribery.
7. The two companies started their legal battles in December 2003, when TSMC claimed SMIC infringed its patents and improperly used its trade secrets.
8. The plaintiff has the highest possibility to lose cases involving trade secrets in comparison with other IP cases.
9. Nokia Siemens has " no interest in getting unlawful access to Huawei's trade secrets ", the company said in a statement.
10. Enterprises should regularly evaluate and analyze the commercial value of the trade secrets they possess, on an annual basis or longer.