Foreign Engineer Arrested For Trade Secret Theft Involving Medical Technology

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey recently charged a former employee with stealing trade secrets from a New Jersey medical technology company. 

The former employee, an Indian national, worked in a group at his former employer responsible for the manufacture of pen injectors and pre-fillable syringes.  He resigned from the company last month, and in the weeks leading up to his resignation, “allegedly downloaded 8,000 files containing step-by-step assembly instructions and invoices for equipment to create self-administered disposable pens.”  According to the company’s own internal probe, he also “forwarded about 60 documents containing trade secrets from his work email account to one of his personal email accounts.”  He also allegedly called in sick the day before he resigned, but he was “busily downloading” company files using his work laptop, the complaint says.

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