A court in Taiwan has sentenced a former employee of Japanese computer chip equipment maker Tokyo Electron to 10 years in prison in a landmark case over trade secrets of the island’s leading chipmaker TSMC Ex-Tokyo Electron employee sentenced to 10 years, with four other defendants getting between 10 months and six years. Key points and original sources are listed below.

• A court in Taiwan has sentenced a former employee of Japanese computer chip equipment maker Tokyo Electron to 10 years in prison in a landmark case over trade secrets of the island’s leading chipmaker TSMCS1

• Ex-Tokyo Electron employee sentenced to 10 years, with four other defendants getting between 10 months and six years. A court in Taiwan has fined the local unit of Japan’s Tokyo Electron $5m, and sentenced five defendants to jail terms of up to 10 years, in a...S2