A customer tries on the Apple Vision Pro headset during a product launch at Apple Store in New York City on February 2, 2024.
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Apple A former engineer has been accused before starting a new job to steal the company trade secrets for his vision Pro headset computer. SnapAccording to a lawsuit filed in California last week.
In filing in the court of 24 June, Apple accused a senior design engineer, DI Liu, last year at the Cupertino company of downloading thousands of documents in its last days and saving them in their personal cloud accounts.
The lawsuit is the latest example of Apple publicly after a former employee to leak internal information. Apple is an intensity secret company, and such lawsuits highlight how the iPhone manufacturer practices strict control over his internal information, even if it has to take legal action against the former employees.
Apple alleged that Liu did not inform the company when it resigned at the end of last year that he was leading to Snap, a competitor and producer of smart glasses. As a result, Apple did not stop its access to accounts and allowed them to have a two -week transition period, which they used to download the company’s files according to the trial.
“Still worse, a review of Mr. Liu’s Apple-Zari work laptop also shows that while maintaining access to Apple’s ownership information under false excuses, he used his Apple Crearendials to exfiltrate thousands of documents, including Apple’s safe file storage systems,” IPHONE.
According to the trial, many of the files downloaded by Liu had codenames for Apple projects and described the company’s technology, product design and supply chain. Apple says that all employees agree to keep the apple files confidential and Liu broke the privacy agreements when they included. According to the trial, Liu worked for Apple between 2017 and 2024.
According to the filing, Liu worked on Apple’s Vision Pro headset as a system product design engineer. Liu did not respond to the recommendation request from CNBC.
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Apple’s lawyers have written that Liu can use business secrets in his work in Snap. Apple is not sue Snap.
“Between Apple’s proprietary information, the overlap which was maintained by Mr. Liu and Snap’s AR products (for which Mr. Liu is a ‘product design engineer’) suggests that Mr. Liu intends to use Apple’s ownership information in SNAP,” according to the filing.
The SNAP spokesman said in a statement, “We have reviewed the allegations in Apple’s complaint and there is no reason to believe that they are related to the employment of this person or related to conduct in SNAP.”
Apple is demanding losses and liu to inspect your equipment by a forensic examiner to ensure that all business secrets have been removed.
The iPhone manufacturer has sued several former employees in recent years when he left the company.
Apple settled with former engineer Simon Lancaster In 2022 Providing information to a journalist. Apple also sued Andrew Aude, a former employee in 2024, leaking details to the media. That was the case Dismissed Apologies after Oud.
Cupertino company sued Rivos, which was a chip startup staff, during its intellectual property by Apple Semiconductor Employees, and Fixed In 2024.
Additionally at least three East Apple has also been employees Arrested and accused by government To take the secrets of the company and give them to organizations associated with China. One Pledge Criminal And was sentenced to four months in jail, and two are still in proceedings.
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