Apple claims San Jose engineer stole trade secrets, took them to rival

Apple claims San Jose engineer stole trade secrets, took them to rival

Di Liu of San Jose told Apple he was resigning his position as a design engineer to spend more time with his family and look after his health, but he had secretly taken a job with a rival, and before leaving the iPhone giant, he stole a “massive volume” of its trade secrets, Apple alleges in a lawsuit against Liu. Over his seven years at Cupertino-headquartered Apple, Liu rose to become a senior product-design engineer, and worked on the researc…