Apple is prosecuted by one of its former design engineers for allegedly stealing commercial secrets, which then provided its new employer, Snap. As reported Silicone Valley.comDi Liu left his role as a senior product design engineer after a seven -year tenure with Apple, which cited personal and family reasons for resigning from the company.
Before leaving Apple, Liu worked on Vision Pro Hidset, where according to the case showed Silicone Valley.com It was given access to the “Apple Vision Pro or the various Apple Technologies released yet.” The litigation also claims that Liu did not reveal to Apple that he was offered a job by Snap two weeks before his resignation – where the designer has been working according to his LinkedIn profile since January 2025 – which was “quite similar to his role in the company.” In addition to being the owner of Snap Chat, Snap AR glasses are also called spectators, which are currently in their fifth generation.
According to the report, Liu’s decision not to inform Apple that he will soon be working on similar products for Vision Pro in another company means that he is allowed to work on a two -week standard departure period. Three days before leaving the company, Liu alleges that Liu used his company’s credentials to download “thousands” of Apple’s corporate documents, which he uploaded to personal cloud storage. He claims that he intends to deliberately use Apple’s proprietary information in SNAP, looking at the clear similarities between the products, and added that he has deleted files from his company’s laptop that can involve it.
Apple is allegedly seeking the return of stolen trade secrets, along with allegedly undeniable damage, and handed over its former employee’s equipment and cloud accounts for inspection. Silicone Valley.com Failure to comment for the comment, but Snap said he had read claims in Apple’s litigation, and he had “no reason to believe that he was related to the employment of the individual or the behavior of SNAP.”
This is not the first time Apple has prosecuted a former employee. In 2019, the company accused Gerard Williams III, who worked on mobile chips for 10 years before joining Novia Ink, violating his deal. Williams disagreed with legalism and claimed that Apple was spying on its text messages. In 2022, Apple accused the then start -up Ravos of illegally hunting employees from its chip design division, in which two former employees were allegedly carrying secret data gigabytes with them.
Earlier this year, a former Apple engineer issued an apology after confessing to leaking information about the products to journalists for eight years in the company. A legalization alleges that Andrew Auda leaked information about the timely vision pro. Wall Street Journal And Information Was dismissed.
