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Top Via execs indicted for industrial espionage

edited December 2003 in Science & Tech
The Taipei District Public Prosecutors Office has accused the chairman and the CEO of Via Technologies, a leading vendor of PC chipsets and other semiconductors, of copyright infringement and industrial espionage, a company executive confirmed on Monday.

The prosecutors office has prepared an indictment that accuses Via President and CEO Wenchi Chen and his wife, Via Chairman Cher Wang, as well as Via engineer Jeffrey Chang, of copyright infringement and industrial espionage, said Richard Brown, the company's associate vice president of marketing.

"We haven't received the indictment yet and there have been conflicting reports about what it actually involves," Brown said, noting that Via has been in communication with the prosecutors office. "The indictment should come in the mail over the next couple days."

As far as Via has been able to ascertain, the charges levelled against Chen, Wang and Chang in the indictment allege that the three conspired and stole technology from one of Via's customers, networking equipment vendor D-Link, Brown said. The prosecutor has asked for a four-year jail term for Wang and Chen and a three-year sentence for Chang, he said.

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  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    :Pwned:
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    They stole from D-LINK? What the hell were they thinking....? and why? lol
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    No-wonder their latest drivers started screwing up peoples machines :rolleyes2

    NS
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