Apple sues a former employee for stealing

Apple accused the former engineer of the Vision Pro Comput headset of the theft of commercial secrets before starting a new job in HairAccording to a lawsuit filed in California last week.

In court on June 24, Apple accuses senior DI Liu design engineer of downloading thousands of documents in recent days at Cupertino last year and kept them on his personal cloud accounts.

This lawsuit is the last example of Apple, which is publicly followed by a former internal information officer. Apple is an intensively secret company, and such lawsuits as this one emphasize how the iPhone manufacturer is strictly controlled by its internal information, even if it should conduct legal actions against former employees.

Apple claims that Liu did not tell the company when he retired last year that he headed for Snap, a competitor and a manufacturer of smart glasses. As a result, Apple did not turn off its access to the accounts and allowed it to be the usual two -week transition period it used to download the company’s files, according to the lawsuit.

“Worse, the revision of the laptop, which is taught on the apple, also shows that, while maintaining access to Apple’s own information, he used his Apple’s powers to highlight thousands of documents containing his own information from the Apple file storage systems,” the iPhone manufacturers said.

In many files downloaded Liu, there were code names for Apple projects and described the company technology, product design and supply chain according to the lawsuit. Apple says all employees agree to save Apple’s confidential files, and that the people violated the confidentiality agreements he concluded when he joined. Liu worked at Apple between 2017 and 2024, according to the lawsuit.

Liu worked on the Apple Vision Proine as a system product engineer, according to the submission. Liu did not respond to a request for comment from CNBC.

Apple lawyers wrote that Liu could use commercial secrets in their work on Snap. Apple does not sue with Snap.

“The overlapping between Apple’s own information, which G -Liu has saved, and the AR SNAP products (for whom G -Liu is a” product engineer “) suggests that Mr. intends to use Apple’s own information on Snap,” the submission reports.

“We have considered the allegations of Apple’s complaint and have no reason to believe that they are related to the employment of this person or behavior on SNAP,” the Snap press said.

Apple is looking for losses for the Liu for his devices to inspect the forensic expert to make sure that all commercial secrets are removed.

In recent years, the iPhone manufacturer has sued several former employees for having left the company.

Apple settled with former engineer Simon Lancaster In 2022 over the provision of information to the journalist. Apple also sued former employee Andrew Adera, in 2024 on the leakage of details in the media. This lawsuit was dismissed by After Aude apologized.

Cupertino has sued Rivos, a startup chip, which employs former Apple Semiconductor staff, for their intellectual property, and settled down In 2024.

Also at least three former Also were Apple staff arrested and accused by the government Accept the secrets of companies and give them to organizations related to China. One brewer guilty And he was sentenced to four months in prison, and two are still being considered.

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