Ex-Google Engineer Wins Partial Acquittal After IP Theft Trial

A California federal judge acquitted an ex-Google software engineer of espionage charges Thursday while upholding his trade secret theft conviction, ruling that although trial evidence showed his trade secret theft was “ad hoc, disorganized and feeble,” such evidence isn’t enough to prove he intentionally colluded with the Chinese government.
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