Worker Convicted Of Stealing Secrets Has No Luck At 9th Circ.

By Andrew Karpan

The only employee of a Santa Clara, California, chipmaker to be convicted for involvement in a scheme to steal trade secrets in order to launch a startup has failed to convince a federal appeals court that he shouldn't have to face three years of probation and pay a fine, because he had problems using the files he was found guilty of stealing. 

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