On Feb. 12, the Department of Justice brought criminal charges against two individuals accused of stealing trade secrets from Atlanta-based Coca-Cola. That case is simply the latest in the Department of Justice’s escalation of trade secret theft prosecutions over the past year.

At first glance, these criminal prosecutions appear to be part of an explicit DOJ commitment to “redouble [its] efforts” to combat China-related trade secret thefts. Indeed, in November 2018, Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the DOJ Criminal Division vowed to bring “every necessary resource to bear” to counter what he described as “Chinese economic aggression.” A quick review of indictments and DOJ press releases from just the past year show that the department has moved quickly to vindicate the interests of numerous corporate victims of trade secret theft including T-Mobile USA, General Electric, Apple Inc., Micron Technology Inc., DuPont, GE Aviation, Genentech, GlaxoSmithKline, Coca-Cola, American Superconductor Inc. and numerous others.

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