http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/07/09/global-chase-cracked-corporate-espionage-case/8HC7wKBJezDkNFNSWB5dFO/story.html
By Erin Ailworth
Boston Globe Staff
July 10, 2013
On a Thursday evening three Junes ago, Dejan Karabasevic desperately
needed to contact his former wife. Karabasevic, a top engineer in American
Superconductor Corp.'s offices in Klagenfurt, Austria, had been summoned
to work, then confronted by police, who suspected him of selling his
company’s proprietary software to a Chinese wind turbine maker.
The questioning lasted past midnight. When he finally reached his former
wife, he instructed her to delete all the e-mails in his Google account.
But authorities stopped her before she could.
The e-mails proved the basis for Karabasevic’s subsequent arrest and
conviction in an Austrian court on charges of revealing trade secrets. His
case marked what would be the opening round of a two-year fight by the
Devens-based technology firm known as AMSC to defend its intellectual
property rights -- even as it lost millions of dollars and laid off
hundreds of workers as the result of the software theft.
It would also open a window on the sometimes tawdry world of economic
espionage between companies battling for preeminence in emerging energy
markets.
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