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Feb 27: 
chipmaker Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co was cleared of economic espionage and other criminal charges in a setback — and a massive failure — for a US Justice Department crackdown on IP theft by China.
More than five years after the Commerce Department blacklisted Fujian Jinhua as a threat to national security, US District Judge Maxine Chesney in San Francisco found the company not guilty following a non-jury trial. Her ruling may temper the Biden administration’s pursuit of aggressive prosecutions to protect American technology.
Chesney concluded that US prosecutors failed to prove that the state-sponsored company misappropriated proprietary data from Micron, America’s largest memory-chip maker, that allegedly passed through 
United Microelectronics Corp in a manufacturing deal with Fujian Jinhua. UMC assisted the Justice Department in its case against Fujian Jinhua after pleading guilty in 2020 to trade-secret theft and paying a $60M fine.
Micron and Fujian Jinhua previously reached a settlement in which they agreed to drop all claims against each other. That includes a civil suit filed by the Micron the year before the Justice Department brought criminal charges against Fujian Jinhua.
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chipmaker Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co was cleared of economic espionage and other criminal charges in a setback — and a massive failure — for a US Justice Department crackdown on IP theft by China.
More than five years after the Commerce Department blacklisted Fujian Jinhua as a threat to national security, US District Judge Maxine Chesney in San Francisco found the company not guilty following a non-jury trial. Her ruling may temper the Biden administration’s pursuit of aggressive prosecutions to protect American technology.
Chesney concluded that US prosecutors failed to prove that the state-sponsored company misappropriated proprietary data from Micron, America’s largest memory-chip maker, that allegedly passed through United Microelectronics Corp in a manufacturing deal with Fujian Jinhua. UMC assisted the Justice Department in its case against Fujian Jinhua after pleading guilty in 2020 to trade-secret theft and paying a $60M fine.
Micron and Fujian Jinhua previously reached a settlement in which they agreed to drop all claims against each other. That includes a civil suit filed by the Micron the year before the Justice Department brought criminal charges against Fujian Jinhua.
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