Jim Zarroli, NPR; Judge Orders Chinese Wind-Turbine Maker To Pay $59 Million For Stealing Trade Secrets
"A federal judge has ordered China's largest wind-turbine firm, Sinovel, to pay $59 million for stealing trade secrets from a Massachusetts-based technology company.
Last January, Sinovel was found guilty
of stealing trade secrets in federal criminal court in Madison, Wis.
The company paid an Austria-based employee of American Superconductor
Corp. to steal its source code for software that powered wind turbines.
This
kind of intellectual property theft has been highlighted by the Trump
administration as a reason for levying 25 percent tariffs on $34 billion
of Chinese goods entering the U.S., which began on Friday. China
retaliated with tariffs on $34 billion worth of U.S. goods."
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