Apple claims that the former engineer participated in the pro -secret vision in a new lawsuit

Apple is sued one of the former design engineers by allegedly stealing a group of commercial secrets he presented to the new business owner, Snap. As mentioned before Di Liu left his role as a large design engineer for the product after a period of seven years with Apple, citing personal and family reasons in his resignation to the company.

Before leaving Apple, LIU worked at the VISION PRO headphone, according to the lawsuit he seen Siliconvalley.com It has been granted “access to or not yet released. The lawsuit also claims that Liu did not reveal Apple that two weeks before his resignation, he offered him a job by Snap – where the designer had been working since January 2025 according to his personal file LinkedIn – he was “very similar” to his role in the company he left. In addition to owning Snapchat, Snap also makes AR glasses called glasses, which are currently in the fifth generation.

According to the report, the LIU decision not to inform Apple that it will soon work on a product similar to The Vision Pro in another company, which means that he was allowed to work on his standard departure period for two weeks. The lawsuit claims that three days before the company left, LIU used his company’s accreditation data to download “thousands” from Apple documents, which he uploaded to personal cloud storage. He claims that he is likely to be intended to use Apple ownership information in Snap, given the clear similarities between the products, adding that he deleted files from the laptop for his company that he could have been involved.

According to what Apple seeks to obtain unlimited compensation, in addition to the return of alleged commercial secrets, the previous employees’ devices and cloud accounts that are delivered for inspection. Siliconvalley.com He was contacted without success from LIU to comment, but Snap said he had read the claims in the Apple lawsuit and had no “any reason to believe that it is linked to the work of this individual or his behavior in Snap.”

This is not the first time that Apple sued a former employee. In 2019, the company Gerard Williams III, who worked on mobile phone flakes for 10 years before joining Nuvia Inc, to violate his contract. Williams opposed the case and claimed that Apple was spying on his text messages. In 2022, Apple Then the novice Rivos from the unjust fishing staff from its chip design department, with two former employees with which Gigabytes claims from secret data.

Earlier this year, a former giving engineer An apology after admitting to leakage of information about the coming products for reporters during his eight years of the company. A lawsuit claims that Andrew would like to leak information about the uninterrupted vision at the time Wall Street Magazine and Information It was rejected.