Like almost every other kind of economic activity, theft of intellectual property is increasingly moving to the digital domain. The indictment by the Justice Department this spring of five members of China's military for economic espionage through sophisticated computer hacking threw onto the front pages an issue that has increasingly agitated not only the growing number of corporate victims but also enforcement and regulatory authorities in both the United States and the European Union: how to combat the theft of valuable IP by sophisticated, often government-sponsored, cyber intruders located around the globe.
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Originally published from the September 29, 2014 edition of the New York Law Journal
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