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Criminal consequences of trade secret theft: The EEA and compliance plans

✍ Scribed by James Pooley

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1997
Weight: 89 KB
Volume: 8
Category: Article
ISSN: 1058-0247
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6386(199723)8:3<13::aid-cir5>3.0.co;2-c

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✦ Synopsis

Your industry is crawling with criminals. And you may be one of them. So might your company. In the Information Age, when employees move from job to job with address books and work samples, a new federal law has criminalized the taking of "trade secrets," with fines up to $10 million and jail terms up to 15 years. Cases involving a customer list used to be a concern only of private lawyers; now they can be investigated by the FBI, and prosecuted by the Department of Justice. All of this came about with the enactment of the federal Economic Espionage Act of 1996.