Apple, former employee Chen ShiHe filed a lawsuit in the United States, claiming that he had transferred secret documents to Oppo. The company claimed that Shi stole commercial secrets about Apple Watch.
Dr. Shi served as a sensor system architect at Apple and provided direct access to many private information about health technologies. According to Apple’s files to court, Shi from a protected box folder before leaving 63 files USB copied to memory. In addition, shortly before leaving the job Apple MacBook “how to delete a macbook” and “the shared folder can see a file I can see, such as searches such as searches such as. These details showed that the documents were wanted to be taken secretly during the departure process. But Shi’s justification for his official resignation was “personal and family reasons ..
According to Apple’s claim, Shi attended many meetings with the Apple Watch team before starting his post in Oppo. He reached detailed information about sensor technologies and future plans developed in these meetings. In addition, he wrote that he wanted to collect as much data as possible in the messages he sent to Oppo. The company announced that Shi found these messages on the work iPhone provided by Apple. In addition, Oppo’s support and approved the Plan of Shi was also included in the case file.
Apple wrote in the case file that the documents were moved to Oppo
The case in San Jose includes the protection of Apple’s commercial secrets and the prevention of the use of confidential documents. The company demands financial compensation against Oppo and Shi, criminal compensation and attorney fees. However, the case Defend Trade Secrets Act and the violation of the confidentiality agreement signed by Shi was brought to the agenda. However, there was no official statement about the case by Oppo. Despite everything, Apple’s documents will play an important role in the court process.
Apple is known to have filed similar cases in the past. For example, it was claimed that an engineer working in the Vision Pro project transferred thousands of documents to his personal cloud account before moving to Snap. Similarly, the protection of commercial secrets was the main issue in this case. In addition, Apple argued that such cases once again showed how important internal security policies are. In addition to all these, it is seen that the company does not limit its case processes to individual violations and targets its corporate competitors.
Oppo has a research center in the Silicon Valley called Innopeak. According to Apple’s claim, this center is used to transfer Western engineers to access confidential information. Nevertheless, Oppo does not give any response to the public. However, this case also shows how the competition between Apple and Chinese manufacturers in the wearable device market. Therefore, the case process is no longer a matter between the two companies.