Plea deal ends China tech export case
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The last defendant in an extended family charged with conspiring to export U.S. defense technology to China has admitted being a foreign agent, bringing the case to an abrupt end, authorities said Wednesday.
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The worldâs largest maker of memory chips settled civil charges that it conspired with six other makers of computer chips to fix prices.
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China and Russia yesterday completed talks concerning the latter&#39;s proposed accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). They also mutually recognized the market economy status of each.
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British and Chinese companies have signed key business agreements, including a multi-millon-dollar engine deal between Rolls-Royce and Air China, witnessed by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Ebay, the world's biggest online auctioneer, is to close its primary China site and form a new partnership with Beijing based, Tom Online, according to news reports. Ebay is expected to pay $40 million for a 49% stake in the venture.
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The retrial of Deutsche Bank boss Josef Ackermann and former Mannesmann board members ends with a deal.
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AÂ flurry of raids and arrests in China over the last two weeks have ended what is estimated to be the world's largestÂ piracyÂ syndicate in operation for more than six years.
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Two-year legal dispute over smart phone technology comes to an end.
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Alcatel-Lucent has agreed to pay $2.5 million in fines to resolve allegations that it provided Chinese government officials with free trips to Disneyland and other tourist attractions.The company has to pay $1 million to resolve U.S. Department of Justice charges that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) when providing travel and other perks to Chinese government officials, the DOJ said Friday. The company also agreed to pay a $1.5 million civil fine to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.The agreement with the DOJ wraps up a multiyear investigation into whether Lucent, before its November 2006 merger with Alcatel, provided things of value to the Chinese officials and improperly accounted for the expenses.The company cooperated fully with the DOJ and SEC investigations, an Alcatel-Lucent spokeswoman said. The company is &quot;glad to put the matter behind us&quot; and looks forward to successful business dealings in China in the future, she said.From about 2000 to 2003, Lucent spent millions of dollars on more than 300 trips for Chinese government officials that included sightseeing, entertainment and leisure, the DOJ said. The trips were approved by senior Lucent Chinese officials, with the support of Lucent employees in the U.S.Lucent improperly recorded expenses for these trips and failed to implement internal controls to monitor the provision of travel and other things of value to Chinese officials, the DOJ said in a press release.In 2002 and 2003, there were 24 Lucent-sponsored trips for Chinese government customers, and at least 12 trips were primarily for sightseeing, the DOJ said. The people participating in these trips were senior government officials, including the heads of state-owned telecommunications companies in Beijing and the leaders of provincial telecommunications subsidiaries.Between 2000 and 2003, Lucent provided Chinese government officials with trips to the U.S., Europe, Australia and elsewhere that were often characterized as &quot;factory inspections&quot; or &quot;training,&quot; the DOJ said. By 2001, Lucent had outsourced most of its manufacturing and no longer owned factories for its customers to tour. These trips were primarily sightseeing tours to locations such as Disneyland, Universal Studios and the Grand Canyon, and typically lasted 14 days and cost between $25,000 and $55,000 per trip, the DOJ said.Lucent admits to all of this conduct in the agreement announced on Friday. The agreement also requires Lucent to adopt new or modify existing internal controls, policies and procedures. Those internal controls must ensure that Lucent keeps fair and accurate books, the DOJ said. The agency has agreed not to prosecute Lucent if it complies with all of the requirements in the agreement over a two-year term.
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Claims the UK government offered the car maker's potential Chinese partner Â£100m to seal a deal are dismissed.
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Nuclear trafficking charges against the owner of a South African engineering plant are dropped.
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The trial of a Chinese researcher for The New York Times who is accused of fraud and leaking state secrets ended Friday after one day, his lawyer said.
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A legal battle is shaping up in California involving a Chinese startup that makes equipment used to produce semiconductors.Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment&#160;(AMEC), of Shanghai, was sued in California by Applied Materials, which claims the company misappropriated its trade secrets. But lawyers for the Chinese company asked the judge to dismiss the suit, arguing the U.S. court has no jurisdiction over AMEC&#39;s activities.AMEC&#39;s motion for dismissal will be heard by Judge James Ware of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, on Feb. 11.Applied&#39;s lawsuit, filed in October and amended last month, claims AMEC used its trade secrets to develop etch and CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposit) tools that are used to make chips. AMEC&#39;s tools will compete against similar products from Applied, which cost millions of dollars each. Applied is seeking an injunction from the court to prevent the misappropriation of its trade secrets and wants punitive damages as well as a declaration that it owns patent applications recently filed by AMEC.Applied identified four former employees in the suit, including AMEC founders Gerald Yin and Aihua Chen.Applied&#39;s amended complaint describes Yin, who left Applied in 2004 to start AMEC, as a former corporate vice president and chief technology officer who &quot;managed the etch product group and had broad access to Applied confidential information and trade secrets concerning its etch tools.&quot; In addition, the complaint says Chen at one point served as general manager of Applied&#39;s CVD product group and had access to proprietary technology related to those tools.To bolster its case against AMEC, Applied noted that the former employees identified in the lawsuit signed agreements that give Applied all rights to inventions made during their employment, and prevent them from using Applied&#39;s confidential information for anyone else&#39;s benefit. Under the agreement, any patents filed by the former employees within one year of leaving Applied are &quot;presumed to have been conceived or made during their employment with Applied and would belong to Applied.&quot;As a result, Applied&#39;s complaint lays claim to two AMEC patent applications filed in China on August 5, 2005, that name Yin and other former Applied employees as inventors. These patents should belong to Applied as the patent applications were made &quot;one year and three days after Yin left applied&quot; and therefore must be based on information that Yin disclosed to AMEC during the one year period, the complaint said.AMEC subsequently filed patent claims in Japan and the U.S. based on the Chinese patent applications. Applied&#39;s complaint also claims these patent applications as its own, noting Applied filed its own patent applications covering the same technologies.In response, AMEC&#39;s motion to dismiss argues that the U.S. court has no jurisdiction over the Chinese company.&quot;In this case, there is no jurisdiction over AMEC Inc., because the allegations of the (amended complaint) relate exclusively to actions that took place in China. None of Applied&#39;s claims arises out of allegations concerning contact with California,&quot; the motion said, adding any legal action by Applied against AMEC should be heard in a Chinese court instead.
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Research in Motion has received clearance to sell its BlackBerry device in China after eight years of trying.
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The Chinese company where Apple iPods are made has decided to drop a defamation claim against two staffers at China Business News.  An investigation by Apple found no serious labor abuses, like child labor, at Hongfujin Precision Industry in Shenzhen, the BBC reports.
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Bayer AG&#39;s US unit agreed to plead guilty and pay a $33 million fine for participating in a conspiracy to fix the price of chemicals used to make plastic grocery bags, shoe soles and
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A Chinese firm drops a lawsuit against two journalists who claimed labour abuses on its iPod assembly line.