Apple Snap is prosecuted for allegedly stealing secret vision pro -headset research before joining Snap’s product design team. In a complaint filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court on June 24, Apple accused The Leo of downloading thousands of documents containing proprietary information from Apple’s internal systems and reserves them as senior design engineer of Vision Pro in their personal cloud storage account in their last day.
According to the legalization, Liu falsely claimed that he was leaving his job for health reasons and did not reveal that he had a new job as a product design engineer for Snap. This prevented Apple from immediately canceling Liu’s internal systems, a standard protocol that the company is on the notice that employees are joining a competitor. Apple alleges that Liu was allowed to copy the “mass volume” of proprietary information, which he could later access after the Apple network was closed.
Apple said in the complaint, “Mr. Liu’s actions were deliberate. Login on his laptop on his Apple work shows that Mr. Liu individually chose the folders that he had copied and, in some cases, transferred them to his personal cloud storage account and renamed them.” “Further, Mr. Liu took steps to hide the movement of the files, deliberately deleting files from his Apple work laptop.”
Apple says it is unable to determine what was downloaded by Liu, but it argues that the information that Liu had taken with Snap’s AR Specticals products suggests that “Mr. Liu intends to use Apple’s proprietary information in Snap.” According to the complaint, the Apple is violating the responsibilities of the contract and requesting that Liu be forced to return the stolen documents.
Apple has not named Snap in the suit by the defendant. Snap said in a statement Silicone Valley That he had reviewed Apple’s claims, and he had “no reason to believe that he was related to the person’s job or SNAP behavior.”
