Here are five things to know about Mr. Xu’s sentencing.
1. IBM was not identified by name in court documents. However, Mr. Xu, 32, worked as a systems software developer for IBM in China from 2010 to 2014, according to a LinkedIn profile cited by Reuters.
2. Prosecutors said Mr. Xu had access to the company’s proprietary source code before he voluntarily resigned in 2014. The code was related to a clustered file system that facilitates computer performance.
3. Mr. Xu was arrested in late 2015 after a meeting with an undercover police officer at a hotel in White Plains. Authorities said they recorded him claiming to use IBM code to make software during the meeting.
4. Mr. Xu pleaded guilty to theft of a trade secret and economic espionage charges in May 2017.
5. Mr. Xu’s attorney Leanne Marek and IBM did not immediately respond to Reuters‘ request for comment.
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