Couple Charged With Stealing Commerce Secrets and techniques From Ohio Kids’s Hospital – CBS Pittsburgh

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Federal authorities have introduced commerce secret theft prices towards husband-and-wife researchers who labored for 10 years at an Ohio youngsters’s hospital analysis institute.

A grand jury indictment handed down in July and unsealed Monday accuses the couple of stealing mobile analysis they carried out at Nationwide Kids’s Hospital’s Analysis Institute in Columbus.

The indictment accuses 46-year-old Li Chen and her husband, 49-year-old Yu Zhou, of stealing commerce secrets and techniques associated to the analysis and illegally transferring the knowledge to China.

The indictment additionally says the couple arrange companies in China, utilized for patents there and traveled to China, all with out Nationwide Kids’s authorization.

Steve Nolder, an lawyer representing Chen, declined remark, calling it a “difficult and delicate case.” A message was left with Zhou’s lawyer.

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