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Show New York Court Finds Scientist Stole Secrets From Drug Firm Justice Thomas A. Aurielo, New York Supreme Court, has found Dr. Sidney Martin Fox stole drug secrets and antibiotic cultures from his former employer, em-ployer, Lederle Laboratories, and sold them to several Italian firms. Justice Aurielo issued a , permanent per-manent injunction Jan. 9 against Fox and his firm. Kim Laboratories, Labora-tories, Suffern, New York; and appointed a referee to assess damages. American Cyanamid Company, Lederle's parent corporation, cor-poration, brought a five-million dollar damage suit against Fox in March 1962. The Judge held that Fox had sold secrets reportedly worth tens of millions of dollars to Italian firms for several hundred thousand dollars. The drugs involved in-volved were the antibiotics Aureomycin chlortetracycline, Achromycin tetracycline, Declo-mycin Declo-mycin demethylchlortetracy-cline, demethylchlortetracy-cline, and the cortisone derivative deriva-tive Aristocort triamcinolone all of which were developed by Lederle. at a cost of more than ten million dollars. The Judge found that the stolen documents, including research re-search reports and various production pro-duction procedures, were microfilmed micro-filmed by Fox and his associates and sold to the Italian firms of LEO, Pierrel, IBI, MIBA, Anker-mann Anker-mann and Le Petit. Fox served as consultant to these and other firms and instructed them in the production ' of these valuable drugs, using Lederle trade secrets and cultures, the Judge said. Fox and six of his associates are also under federal indictment indict-ment for alleged violation of the National Stolen Property Act in connection with the drug thefts. The Judge also found that among those who dealt in the stolen documents were Biorganic Laboratories, Inc. of East Pater-son, Pater-son, N.J.; and Nathan Sharff, a leading drug importer who is also under indictment in the federal fed-eral case. |