In 2017, the American Micron on the Taiwanese company United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) and three of its former employees. She accused them of transferring their technological secrets related to the production of DRAM memory to the Chinese manufacturer Fujian Jinhua. How Bloomberg Law publication, after three years of proceedings, the Taiwanese court put an end to this dispute and sided with Micron.
Before joining UMC, which is based in Hsinchu, Taiwan, the three accused employees worked for Micron Memory Taiwan, one of them, Stephen Chen, as president of that division. The case states that Micron accused them of stealing its intellectual property related to DRAM memory production technologies and transferring this information to UMC.
UMC denied all accusations against itself and stated that its DRAM memory production technologies are in no way related or even similar to Micron technologies.
Three years later, the district court of the Taiwanese city of Taichung completed the proceedings and sided with Micron. Three former Micron employees were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 4,6 to 6,5 years. In addition, they will have to pay fines ranging from $134 to $830.
UMC itself also suffered. The Taiwanese manufacturer was ordered by the court to pay a fine of $3,4 million.
Source: 3dnews.ru