Nenette Day, an FBI special agent, describes the 2002 case of Shekhar Verma, an employee of Indian outsourcer Geometric Software Solutions, who attempted to sell her some source code for SolidWorks.
Day says that despite the fact that "there was not a shred of evidence that we did not have" against the alleged SolidWorks thief, prosecutors in India have failed to convict the suspect and he continues to work. The FBI initially tried to lure the suspected thief out of India to simplify prosecution, but he was too smart for that, Day says.
You can read the entire article at 'InfoWorld': FBI agent recounts outsourcing horror story, by Bob Brown. Additional stories provide other details of this case, as well as discuss the problems of IP theft:
+ Machine Shop: Information Without Borders by Simson Garfinkel.
+ CSO Online: Big Savings, Big Risk by Michael Fitzgerald
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