Trade-theft case collapses in federal court

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — More than a year after federal authorities trumpeted their first-ever arrest in Utah for industrial espionage, the case has collapsed with the dismissal of 25 charges.

A judge found a Utah company’s “secret” chemical recipe was not only widely known to professionals in the field, but inferior in some respects.

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