An Anonymous Coward writes:
According to
APS
News [aps.org], the United States has dropped its indictment against Xiaoxing
Xi, a Chinese-American physicist. Mr. Xi had signed a non-disclosure
agreement with the company STI when he bought a Pocket Heater, a piece of equipment used to make superconducting films of
magnesium diboride [wikipedia.org]. The government had charged him with wire fraud, claiming
that he had e-mailed information about the Pocket Heater to his colleagues
in China, thereby violating the NDA. After Xi's lawyers presented statements from experts, including
one of the inventors of the Pocket Heater, saying that Xi's e-mails were
not about the device at all, the charges were dropped.
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