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Thursday, September 02, 2010

Ind. Courts - Ass't. U.S. Attorney charges Huang "used a 'patient and calculated' plan to 'drain' [Dow Agrosciences] of technology that took 20 years to develop"

An AP story reported yesterday by Charles Wilson began:

INDIANAPOLIS — A former Indiana scientist accused of illegally sending trade secrets worth $300 million to China and Germany was ordered detained Tuesday on rare charges of economic espionage.

A federal indictment unsealed in Indianapolis alleges that 45-year-old Kexue Huang, who was born in China, passed on proprietary information about the development of organic pesticides to Hunan Normal University while he worked as a researcher for Dow AgroSciences in Indiana from 2003 to 2008.

Dow Agrosciences is a subsidiary of Midland, Mich.,-based Dow Chemical Co.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Cynthia Ridgeway said Huang, a Canadian citizen with permanent U.S. resident status, used a "patient and calculated" plan to "drain" the Indianapolis-based company of technology that took 20 years to develop.

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The gallery in federal court was occupied by about a dozen of Huang's neighbors from his former home in the affluent Indianapolis suburb of Carmel and his current home in Westborough, Mass. Huang, clad in a jail uniform with gray and white stripes, was silent during the two-hour hearing.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 2, 2010 10:05 AM
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