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Two engineers convicted for stealing Goodyear trade secrets

By IBTimes Reporter On May 30 and 31, 2007, the Wyko engineers - Robert and Howley - traveled to a Goodyear tire plant to service equipment supplied by their company to Goodyear. While they were there, they secretly took seven photos of a Goodyear swab down device without the knowledge or permission of Goodyear. Knowing very well that Goodyear protected the swab down device as a trade secret, they secretly emailed the photographs to employees at a Wyko subsidiary located in Dudley, England. The photographs were then used by Wyko to make a similar piece of tire building equipment for HHSC. Roberts and Howley both were found guilty on 10 felony counts of stealing trade secrets, unlawful photographing of trade secrets, and committing wire fraud. To read the complete news article from International Business Time, please click here.

Full post as published by The Trade Secrets Vault on December 19, 2010 (boomark / email).