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EE Times Digital Edition - October 24, 2011
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Last year, the feds shut down a component broker called VisionTech, arrested owner Shannon Wren and administrative manager Stephanie McCloskey, and charged the pair with conspiracy, trafficking in counterfeit goods and mail fraud for knowingly importing more than 3,200 shipments of suspected or confirmed counterfeit semiconductors into the United States, marketing some of the products as "military grade" and selling them to customers that included the U.S. Navy and defense contractors.
In this week's EE Times' cover story, entitled "Poison in the veins," we illustrate how the VisionTech case exposed a flaw in the U.S. government's tactics for catching counterfeit components at the border. Specifically, it's about an interpretation of the U.S. Trade Secrets Act by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that prevents the agency from sharing detailed information about a counterfeit part with the semiconductor company whose name is on the component.
Find out what's at stake in the semiconductor supply chain today.
In this week's EE Times' cover story, entitled "Poison in the veins," we illustrate how the VisionTech case exposed a flaw in the U.S. government's tactics for catching counterfeit components at the border. Specifically, it's about an interpretation of the U.S. Trade Secrets Act by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that prevents the agency from sharing detailed information about a counterfeit part with the semiconductor company whose name is on the component.
Find out what's at stake in the semiconductor supply chain today.
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