Say Lye Ow, aged 31, copied confidential design information about the Itanium processor to use in his next job with Intel’s rival Sun Microsystems, according to the prosecutor. There was no evidence of complicity by Sun or any other Sun employees.
The ruling was passed by District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel, the same judge who recently ruled against French anti-racism groups in the high profile case over Yahoo!’s hosting of auctions selling Nazi memorabilia.