Ex-Genentech Workers Charged With Stealing Secrets to Taiwan
- Scientist allegedly led theft so JHL Biotech could make drugs
- Former employees stole manufacturing protocols, U.S. says
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Former employees of Genentech, led by a principal scientist, were charged by the U.S. with stealing trade secrets from the company to help Taiwan-based JHL Biotech Inc. sell similar drugs.
Xanthe Lam, a principal scientist at the Roche Holding AG unit from 1986 until last year, conspired -- along with her husband, Allen Lam, who also worked for the company and with a family friend, John Chan, who she helped to get hired by JHL -- to steal trade secrets related to the biopharmaceutical Pulmozyme and Roche’s top-selling cancer drugs Rituxan, Herceptin and Avastin, according to an indictment filed Oct. 25 and unsealed Monday.