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year-in-prison-for-lying-about-chinese-patents
A former University of Arkansas professor was sentenced yesterday to 12
months and a day in prison followed by one year of supervised release on one
count of making a false statement to the FBI about the existence of patents
for his inventions in the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
According to court documents, Simon Saw-Teong Ang, 64, of Fayetteville,
filed 24 patents in the PRC which bear Ang’s name or Chinese birth name.
The University of Arkansas, where Ang worked as a professor, required
individuals such as Ang to promptly furnish to the university "full and
complete" disclosures of inventions, and university policy provided that it,
not individual inventors, would own all inventions created by those subject
to the policy.
This policy was established "in furtherance of the commitment of the
university to the widest possible distribution of the benefits of university
research, the protection of inventions resulting from such research, and
the development of Inventions for the public good."
Despite this requirement, Ang did not disclose his Chinese patents to the
university and, when interviewed by an FBI agent, lied about his involvement
in the inventions. Specifically, when asked whether his name would be
listed as "the inventor" of numerous patents in China, Ang denied being the
inventor, despite knowing he was. In addition, Ang also received numerous
talent awards from the PRC government, which he did not list on the
university’s annual conflict of interest disclosure forms. |
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