Looks like the U.S. attorney’s office wasn’t willing to risk another loss in a novel economic espionage case that ended badly for prosecutors last year.
The office today moved to dismiss the remaining charge against two Silicon Valley engineers, Lan Lee and Yuefei Ge, who were accused of stealing trade secrets from their employer, NetLogic Microsystems, and trying to commercialize them with venture funding from the Chinese government.
After a three-week trial last November, a jury acquitted the pair on two counts and deadlocked on three others, prompting U.S. District Judge James Ware of San Jose to later junk two of the three lingering counts. Ware kept in play one trade secret count, on which jurors had divided 6-6. With Ware’s approval, that count will now be history too.
Ge’s attorney, Edward Swanson of San Francisco’s Swanson & McNamara, said: “This is the right result, and we appreciate the prosecutor being willing to take another look at the case.”
Of course, there’s a new U.S. attorney in charge now.
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