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发帖数: 285 | 1 A leading biochemist admitted Friday that she stole proprietary information
potentially worth millions of dollars from a GlaxoSmithKline research
facility in Montgomery County in hopes of launching a rival business in
China with backing from that nation's government.
Yu Xue, 48, of Wayne, told a federal judge in Philadelphia that she pilfered
promising therapies for cancer and other ailments, many of which she
developed while working at the British pharmaceutical giant's Upper Merion
location between 2006 and 2016.
The case is the latest in a string of recent prosecutions of Chinese
American scientists accused of smuggling trade secrets stolen from U.S.
companies to bolster China's competitive edge in science and technology
fields.
"I'm very, very sorry for this mistake I made," Xue, a naturalized U.S.
citizen, told U.S. District Judge Joel Slomsky. "At the very beginning I
didn't have any intention of trying to steal anything."
But even as she was pleading guilty, Xue questioned the value and importance
of the research she stole – auguring a debate over the seriousness of her
crimes that is sure to dominate her sentencing in December.
"You can find all of the patents in the public domains, so I think the
information I sent is not a trade secret," she told Slomsky. "A trade secret
to me is not a publicly available [document]. The patents I sent to them is
publicly available." |
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