March 05, 2024
A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday compared Analog Devices Inc.'s pricey hiring of a Quinn Emanuel attorney to monitor its former engineer's trade secrets trial in person to paying "a brain surgeon to pop a pimple" in an order denying restitution for those costs.
October 12, 2023
A former Analog Devices Inc. engineer convicted of trade secrets theft pushed back on the company's bid to have him pay $600,000 for legal bills, arguing in a Thursday filing that there was no need for a Quinn Emanuel lawyer to charge up to $1,865 per hour to babysit the trial.
October 11, 2023
An engineer convicted of stealing trade secrets from Analog Devices Inc. should have to cover the company's $600,000 legal tab with WilmerHale and Quinn Emanuel, since it needed an experienced attorney sitting in on the engineer's trial, Analog Devices told a Massachusetts federal judge Wednesday.
September 25, 2023
A former Analog Devices Inc. engineer convicted of trade secrets theft slammed prosecutors' request that he cover his ex-employer's $600,000-plus legal tab with WilmerHale and Quinn Emanuel, pointing to "staggering" rates including the $1,685 per hour former acting U.S. Attorney William Weinreb billed to sit in on the monthlong trial.
June 22, 2023
A former Analog Devices Inc. microchip design engineer convicted of trade secrets theft was handcuffed and taken into custody Thursday after allegedly confronting a witness from his trial at a grocery store and using a Chinese pejorative to call him a traitor.
June 14, 2023
A former Analog Devices Inc. engineer indicated Wednesday that he planned to attack his sole trade secrets theft conviction on multiple fronts, asking a Boston federal judge to let him put off his six-month prison term until the First Circuit decides his appeal.
June 01, 2023
A former Analog Devices Inc. engineer convicted of stealing company microchip designs to jump-start his small business was sentenced Thursday to six months in prison by a federal judge in Boston who found the trade secret theft was a "serious crime" deserving time behind bars.
May 31, 2023
A former Analog Devices Inc. engineer convicted of trade secrets theft pressed to stay out of jail after the jury rejected all but one fragment of the government's case, while prosecutors called for a 30-month term to deter other would-be wrongdoers.
April 26, 2023
A former Analog Devices Inc. engineer seeking to have the remaining count in a largely unsuccessful trade secrets theft case against him tossed argued Wednesday that prosecutors' arguments have only reinforced his claims of being a target of unfair racial bias.
April 17, 2023
A former Analog Devices Inc. engineer on Saturday continued his bid to have a lone trade secrets' theft conviction thrown out, arguing that the government stressed a false "strong nexus" to China when it made a race-based decision to charge him.