Apple claims that the former employee stole the Apple Watch commercial secrets for Oppo

Apple is following one of its former employees by claiming that it shares commercial secrets with a new business owner. Apple suit The runway Chen Shi, the former employee who worked on the Apple Watch team, along with OppoAs a defendant, he claims to be “conspiring to steal Apple’s commercial secrets.”

According to the lawsuit, she worked as an architect of the sensor system Apple Watch From January 2020 to June 2025, but he was seeking a job with Oppo early April 2025. Apple claimed that her former employee did not reveal that he would leave to join Oppo, and instead he said he was returning to China to take care of his elderly parents and had no plans to find a new job. However, the lawsuit said that SHI “held and attended dozens of individual meetings” with members of the Apple Watch team to get to know their work on “optical sensors, temperature sensors and ECG sensors.”

In the lawsuit, it was claimed that SHI downloaded 63 files from one of the Apple protected folders and transferred materials to a USB drive before searching the Internet for “How to Wipe (MacBook)” and “Can someone know if you have opened a file on a shared drive?” Along with these allegations, Apple said in the lawsuit that Shi sent a message to the future OPPO employers that he would “collect as much information as possible” about Apple’s health sensors.

OPPO has made a statement to Macromors About Apple suit, claiming that she “did not find any evidence to prove any link between these allegations and the employee’s behavior while working in Oppo.” The company’s statement also said that Oppo did not “Apple Trade Secrets”.

This is not the first time that Apple has taken legal measures against one of its former employees. Earlier this summer, the company filed a lawsuit against a design engineer, claiming that The secrets of trade About Vision Pro and share them with his new business owner, Snap.