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Science 18 May 2001:
Vol. 292. no. 5520, pp. 1274 - 1275
DOI: 10.1126/science.292.5520.1274
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
Alzheimer's Researcher in Japan Accused of Economic Espionage

Eliot Marshall and Dennis Normile

WASHINGTON, D.C., AND TOKYO--Scientists who study Alzheimer's disease were shocked last week to learn that the U.S. Justice Department has indicted one of their colleagues, Takashi Okamoto, for conspiring "to benefit a foreign government" and "steal" trade secrets. Okamoto's peers, who describe him as brilliant but eccentric, are puzzled by the severity of the charges involving material that appears to have no commercial value.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)