Apple is sued the Chinese consumer electronics company Oppo to Overfishing A member of the Apple Watch team at Cupertino Giant steals commercial secrets.
Apple, which is represented by Kirkland & Elis lawyers, shall submit a lawsuit against the former architect of the company’s sensor system, Dr. Qing Shi, and his new owners of Oppo and California -based Inopoak.
Dr. Xi is now leading a team that develops sensor technology in the American Oppo Office, according to a complaint filed by Apple on Thursday in the Northern Province of California.
What is something really accused?
Dr. Xi was a great engineer in Apple between January 2020 and June 2025, where Apple says he had a “front -class seat for the development of Apple for advanced health sensors technology, including high -end road maps, design and specifications documents, and ECG sensor specifications,” which help in measuring heart activity, according to complaints to them.
Apple accuses Dr. Xi of downloading 63 secret documents on the company’s joint engine to the USB drive just three days before leaving it. It is claimed that the documents included sensitive information on technological capabilities that have not yet been released and “technical specifications related to applications and programs” for Apple sensors products such as the temperature sensors in the Apple Watch offers.
Before downloading documents from the joint Apple engine on his MacBook, claimed that the history of the Internet search for Dr. Xi revealed that he searched for “How to Wipe MacBook” and “Can someone know if you have opened a file on a common engine?”
Apple also claims that Dr. Xi stole secret technical information from the team that develops dedicated Apple chips. Apple develops its allocated silicone chips for Mac, iPhone and iPad products. The company is also working on designing artificial intelligence chips for some time now, and is the main effort of CEO Tim Cookies AI repair.
It is known for it High -tech smartphones, and China -based company obtained some online heat in 2020 to issue what many considered Apple Watch cloning.
Oppo smartphones, although Ano is identical to the iPhone in Apple, works well in the Asian markets, especially in China, one of the largest Apple markets.
Besides Huawei and Xiaomi, OPPO has taken the Chinese Apple market share, causing Apple to fall from a list of The five best smartphone sellers in China in 2024. But the technology giant recently started to convert this novel about: IPHONE sales have risen to the lead in China in May, Reuters It was mentioned in June, citing the data of the initial foreign authorities, which leads to a total increase in the global sales of Apple.
Although Oppo does not carry out business in the United States, the company owns and runs a “research center” in the Silicon Valley under both Oppo and Inopeak names, according to the complaint.
OPPO has not yet responded to Gizmodo’s request for comment.
What do Apple say happened?
Apple refers to evidence from Dr. Xi’s phone, which is allegedly showing his contacts with the Oppo Upper leadership from April 2025 until he left Apple at the end of June.
“I will know this week my team about my resignation,” he claims that he wrote in the letters listed in the case. “Recently, I also reviewed different interior materials and did a lot of 1: 1 meetings in an attempt to collect as much information as possible – all of us will share you later.”
In the month previously left Apple, it was claimed that Dr. Xi has identified 33 individual meetings covering the projects in which he did not participate, compared to an average of seven per month in the previous year.
Then when he surrendered at the end of the month, Dr. Xi did not tell colleagues that he would start working in Oppo, but he said instead that he “returns to China to tend to his elderly parents and has no plans to search for a new job,” according to the complaint.
Apple seeks a judicial order prohibited from Oppo from the use of Apple’s commercial secrets, and requests the court to grant compensation and damage to an amount determined in the trial.
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