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ARTICLE | Politics, Policy & Law

Trading blows over trade secrets

JHL Biotech and Genentech duke it out over allegedly stolen trade secrets

February 1, 2019 10:49 PM UTC

Roche’s Genentech Inc. unit kept an employee on the payroll in its South San Francisco office for almost a year after it discovered she was stealing trade secrets, watching as she channeled proprietary data to a Taiwanese startup creating biosimilars of Genentech drugs, according to documents filed in two U.S. federal court cases.

Genentech was complying with requests from the FBI, which was building a criminal case against the woman, Xanthe Lam, and three employees of Taiwanese JHL Biotech Inc., two of whom used to work at Genentech...