The stolen trade secrets conviction of a design engineer at the microchip company Analog Devices Inc. was upheld by a federal appeals court Thursday, which rejected claims that the engineer faced racial discrimination in the prosecution because he is Chinese.
A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit also rejected arguments by Haoyang Yu, a naturalized US citizen from China, that a jury had insufficient evidence to convict him on the single possession of trade secrets count in 2022.
The opinion, written by Judge Lara Montecalvo, said Yu had failed to present “clear evidence” that ...
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