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Begin with what the courts already know. In 2026, a court sentenced an engineer at a major memory-chip maker to seven years in prison for passing more than 600 manufacturing process steps to a competitor abroad. In a separate, documented case, a group of employees left for a competitor with the engineering drawings, CAD files, and build sheets with them, because owning the finished product was not enough to reproduce it; the design documents were the thing that mattered.
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