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Eastman Kodak Co v. Harold Worden
''Eastman Kodak v Harold Worden'' is case of industrial espionage involving the sale of information by Harold Worden, a former Kodak manager, to Kodak's competitors in 1995. Worden was caught selling details on the 401 process, a process designed to increase the speed and quality of film during development, during a sting operation conducted by Kodak after two of their competitors, Konica and Agfa-Gevaert, told Kodak that he had approached them selling trade secrets. After the sting operation, Worden was sentenced to 15-month prison sentence and a fine of $30,000 dollars for interstate transportation of stolen property.
== Overview ==
Harold Worden was a former employee of Kodak and he worked for 28 years at the company. During his time at Kodak, Worden had worked as a project manager in the Rochester-based Kodak film manufacturing plant that Kodak tasked to develop the 401 process, a process designed to enhance both the speed and quality of film manufacturing.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Uncovering trade secrets: the legal and ethical conundrum of creative competitive intelligence )〕 Kodak made the information involved in the process secret and tried to protect against it leaving the company by compartmentalizing the information so that no one employee had all the information and so that it was restricted on a need-to-know basis. Worden was one of the few employees that had access to all of the information. In 1992, Worden retired from Kodak and set up a consulting firm located in Santee, South Carolina.〔
After Worden retired, he began to buy confidential data from another former Kodak employee, Kurt Strobl, at Kodak and from 63 other former Kodak colleagues. He also hired many former Kodak employees to work at his firm. From the these actions, Worden was able to obtain a book containing every secret Kodak manufacturing formula with details of every chemical makeup of film base and coating, a book containing specifications for a $500 million film sensitizing facility, a collection of secret trouble-shooting procedures for the manufacturing of acetate, and a collection of techniques for inspecting and testing finished film base.
In 1994, Kodak became aware of Worden's activities after executives at Konica and Agfa-Gevaert told Kodak and the FBI that Worden had approached them trying to sell trade secrets. In response to this, Kodak began to investigate him. They then set up a sting operation in which a Kodak executive and a security consultant, both of which were former FBI agents, set up a meeting posing as two employees of a phony Chinese company where Worden offered to show them how to make to high quality acetate, using the 401 process, for a fee between $125,000 and $500,000.〔 After, Worden was arrested for interstate transportation of stolen goods by the FBI and sentenced on November 13, 1997, with a 15-month prison sentence and a fine of $30,000 dollars.〔 In addition to the criminal case, Kodak also sued Worden in order to prevent Worden or Strobel from using any other information that he had stolen. As a part of his plea deal, Worden agreed to help Kodak determine who may have received Kodak proprietary information.
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