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.