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Litigation

Nov. 4, 2009

Taiwanese Chipmaker Wins Trade Secret Suit Against Shanghai Rival

The Alameda County jury verdict is being called the biggest trade secret misappropriation case in the nation.

By Dhyana Levey

Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - In what some attorneys are now calling the biggest trade secret misappropriation case in the country, an Alameda County jury on Tuesday came back with a monumental victory for a semiconductor maker that accused another of stealing trade secrets.

The damages phase in the trial starts Thursday and could cost the Shanghai, China-based Semiconductor Manufacturing Internatio...

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