A 46 year-old man has entered a guilty plea to a federal judge in Indianapolis on charges of illegally sending trade secrets to China and Germany worth an estimated $300 million. The Chinese-born man was a scientist and researcher at Dow AgroSciences when he shared proprietary information to someone working at the Hunan Normal University in China and then at the Technical University in Dresden, Germany.

The man admitted to telling the other person about the development of organic pesticides, including biological materials. He has been charged with a dozen counts of theft, five counts of foreign transportation of stolen property, and attempted theft of trade secrets in order to benefit foreign governments under the Economic Espionage Act.

If you are facing charges of trade secret theft, contact the Appleton trade secrets lawyers of Kohler & Hart at 414-271-9595 today.