On Thursday, judge overturns Linwei Ding’s economic espionage convictions while upholding his trade-secret theft convictions.

Linwei Ding, a Chinese national, is found guilty in January of seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets for stealing thousands of pages of…

U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco ruled there was insufficient evidence Ding intended or knew his conduct would benefit the government of China, a…