U.S. v. Jin

Record contained sufficient evidence to support defendant’s conviction on charge of theft of trade secrets concerning cellular telecommunications system call iDEN manufactured by defendant’s U.S. employer. Defendant was discovered by Customs agent attempting to leave U.S. with one-way ticket to China having thousands of internal documents from defendant’s U.S. employer containing details of iDEN technology that were stamped “proprietary.” While defendant argued that her theft did not harm U.S. employer because iDEN system was becoming obsolete, record showed that defendant had become employed by Chinese company that furnished telecommunication services to Chinese armed forces, and that defendant could have given details of iDEN that had economic value to others for purpose of taking away portion of 20 million of U.S. employer customers, who were currently using iDEN system.