On May 13, 2014, a former employee of Nissan in Japan was arrested by the Economic Affairs Division of the Kanagawa Prefectural Police on suspicion of trade secret theft.  The arrest was made under the trade secret provisions of Japan’s Unfair Competition Prevention Act (“UCPA”).

The former employee, identified as Kenichi Okamura, a Japanese national, worked at the Nissan Technical Center in Atsugi, Japan until he resigned in July 2013.  Before his resignation, he allegedly copied, on four different occasions, approximately five thousand electronic files pertaining to sales and marketing plans for Nissan’s popular “X-TRAIL” SUV.  He allegedly copied the files from Nissan servers to a private storage device that he took with him when he left the company.  READ MORE →