Files trace betrayal of a prized China-Mass. partnership

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http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/07/09/global-chase-cracked-corporate-espionage-case/8HC7wKBJezDkNFNSWB5dFO/story.html

By Erin Ailworth
Boston Globe Staff
July 10, 2013

On a Thursday evening three Junes ago, Dejan Karabasevic desperately 
needed to contact his former wife. Karabasevic, a top engineer in American 
Superconductor Corp.'s offices in Klagenfurt, Austria, had been summoned 
to work, then confronted by police, who suspected him of selling his 
company’s proprietary software to a Chinese wind turbine maker.

The questioning lasted past midnight. When he finally reached his former 
wife, he instructed her to delete all the e-mails in his Google account. 
But authorities stopped her before she could.

The e-mails proved the basis for Karabasevic’s subsequent arrest and 
conviction in an Austrian court on charges of revealing trade secrets. His 
case marked what would be the opening round of a two-year fight by the 
Devens-based technology firm known as AMSC to defend its intellectual 
property rights -- even as it lost millions of dollars and laid off 
hundreds of workers as the result of the software theft.

It would also open a window on the sometimes tawdry world of economic 
espionage between companies battling for preeminence in emerging energy 
markets.

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