A customer tried to use Apple Vision Pro headphones during the release of the product at the Apple Store in New York City on February 2, 2024.
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apple At the beginning BreakAccording to a lawsuit filed in California last week.
In court filings on June 24, Apple accused senior design engineer Di Liu of downloading thousands of documents in the last few days of Cupertino last year and saving them to his personal cloud account.
The lawsuit is the latest example of Apple’s former employees who disclosed their internal information. Apple is a very secret company, and lawsuits like this highlight how iPhone manufacturers have strict control over their internal information, even if it has to take legal action against former employees.
Apple claims that Liu did not notify the company when he resigned late last year and that he would head to Snap, a smart glasses rival and manufacturer. As a result, according to the lawsuit, Apple did not close his access to his account and allowed him a habitual two-week transition period that he used to download company files.
“What’s worse is that the review of Mr. Liu’s Apple-issued working laptops also shows that while accessing Apple’s proprietary information under false excuses, he used Apple certificates to delete thousands of documents, including proprietary information from Apple’s secure file storage system,” said the lawyer for iPhone Maker in the document.
According to the lawsuit, many of the files Liu downloaded have codenames for Apple projects and describes the company’s technology, product design and supply chain. Apple said all employees agreed to keep Apple documents confidential, and Liu violated the confidentiality agreement he reached when he joined. According to the lawsuit, Liu worked at Apple between 2017 and 2024.
According to the document, Liu worked as a system product design engineer in Apple’s Vision Pro headsets. Liu did not respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
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Apple lawyers wrote that Liu could use trade secrets at Snap’s work. Apple did not sue the snapshot, and social media companies did not respond to requests for comment.
According to the document, according to FILING, the overlap between the proprietary information retained by Mr. Apple and the Snap AR product (Mr. Liu is a ‘product design engineer’) suggests that Mr. Liu intends to use Apple’s proprietary information on Snap. ”
Apple is seeking damages and wants Liu’s equipment to be inspected by a forensic inspector to ensure that all trade secrets are removed.
iPhone maker has sued several former employees in recent years to collect documents when leaving the company.
Apple settles with former engineer Simon Lancaster In 2022 Chaoyue provides information to journalists. Apple also sued Andrew Aude, a former employee in 2024, for leaks to the media. That lawsuit is Dismissed After Odd apologized.
Cupertino sued Rivos, a CHIP startup composed of former Apple semiconductor employees whose intellectual property rights and settle down In 2024.
At least three more The previous one Apple employees have been Arrested and charged by the government Secret the company and hand it over to Chinese and Chinese organizations. one ensure Sinful He was sentenced to four months in prison, and two others are in lawsuits.
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