Apple accuses a former engineer to steal commercial secrets to steal commercial secrets

Apple is sued a former employee of Vision Pro Confederal Pro before leaving it to join the Snap Product Design Team. in A complaint was filed in the Santa Clara County Supreme Court On June 24, Apple Di Liu is accused of downloading thousands of documents containing royal information from Apple’s internal systems and providing them with his profile account in his last days as a large design engineer for The Vision Pro.

According to the lawsuit, Liu claimed a lie that he was leaving his job for health reasons and did not reveal that he had a new job lining up as a producer of Snap. This Apple prevented from canceling LIU immediately to the internal systems, which is a standard protocol that the company is active when notifying that employees join a competitor. Apple claims that this allowed Liu to copy a “huge size” of royal information that it can later access after the Apple network is closed.

Apple said in the complaint. “Moreover, Mr. Liu has taken measures to hide files, and deliberately delete files from the Apple laptop.

Apple says she is unable to determine exactly what has been downloaded by LIU, but he argues with the interference between the information that Liu took with it with it Snap’s AR Products products “It suggests that Mr. Liu intends to use Apple’s royal information in Snap.” According to the complaint, Apple follows unlimited financial damage from LIU for violating contractual obligations and asking LIU to return the stolen documents.

Apple Snap was not named as a defendant in the lawsuit. Snap said in a statement to Silicon She has reviewed Apple claims, and she does not have “any reason to believe that she is associated with employing this individual or his behavior in Snap.”