Apple sues former employee for stealing Vision Pro trade secrets
On February 2, 2024, a customer tries in the Apple Vision Pro headset during the product launch at the Apple Store in New York.
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Apple Before starting a new job, an former engineer Vizyon accused the company of stealing commercial secrets for the Pro Ear Set Computer. ExplodeAccording to a case against California last week.
In the June 24 court file, Apple accuses Di Liu, a senior design engineer last year at Cupertino Company in his last days of downloading thousands of documents and register them in their personal cloud accounts.
This case is the last example of Apple to go to the public to leak internal information of an old employee. Apple is an extremely hidden company, and such cases emphasize how the iPhone manufacturer needs legal action against the old personnel, even if it needs strict control over its internal information.
Apple claims that Liu did not inform the company when he resigned at the end of last year, he said he went to a competitor and smart glasses manufacturer Snap. As a result, Apple did not close its access to accounts, and according to the case, the company allowed a two -week traditional transition period in which it downloaded its files.
“Worse, the review of the work laptop given by Apple, the work of the work laptop given by Apple, shows Apple identity information to spread thousands of documents from safe file storage systems to spread thousands of documents from the secure file storage systems,” the review of the work laptop given by Apple. He said.
Most of the files downloaded by Liu had code names for Apple projects and announced the company’s technology, product design and supply chain according to the case. Apple says that all employees agreed to keep Apple files secret, and that Liu broke his confidentiality agreements when he joins. According to the case, Liu worked for Apple between 2017-2024.
Liu worked as a system product design engineer on Apple’s Vision Pro headset according to the file. Liu did not respond to the request for comments from CNBC.
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Apple lawyers wrote that Liu could use commercial secrets in his work on Snap. Apple does not sue Snap.
According to the file, “Apple’s special information holds by Mr. Liu and Snap’s Ar products (Bay Liu ‘product design engineer’) overlap, Mr. Luu’nun Apple’s registered information in Snap shows that.”
“We have examined the allegations in Apple’s complaint, and we have no reason to believe that this individual is about employment or behavior in Snap.” He said.
Apple, to ensure that all commercial secrets have been erased by a judicial auditor to control their devices and control of Liu’s devices.
The iPhone manufacturer filed a lawsuit against several former employees to get files when they left the company in recent years.
Apple settled with former engineer Simon Lancaster In 2022 to give information to a journalist. Apple also filed a lawsuit against Andrew Aude, a former employee leaking into the media in 2024. This case dismissed Aude apologized.
The Cupertino company sued Rivos, a chip starting chip by former Apple Semiconductor employees. ingrained In 2024.
Also at least three former Apple employees were arrested and accused by the government for taking company secrets and giving them to Chinese -related organizations. A commitment guilty And he was sentenced to four months in prison, and the two are still in the trial.
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