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Wyko engineers face trial

By: Ed Marcum Federal prosecutors painted two tire company engineers as industrial thieves, stealing trade secrets from Goodyear in a desperate bid to produce tire-making machinery for a Chinese company on short notice. Defense attorneys portrayed Clark Alan Roberts, 47, and Sean Edward Howley, 39, as hardworking family men who may have made a mistake by photographing equipment at a Topeka, Kan., Goodyear plant, but they contend that the machinery in question was designed in 1966, widely distributed to other companies, and would not qualify as a trade secret under the Economic Espionage Act, which the two men are accused of violating. To read the complete news article from Knoxvillebiz, please click here.

Full post as published by The Trade Secrets Vault on December 04, 2010 (boomark / email).