Apple sues former MacBook designer for allegedly selling trade secrets
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Updated: Mar 14, 2021 22:05 IST
Washington [US], March 14 (ANI): American multinational technology company Apple recently sued one of its former MacBook designers, alleging that he sold unreleased product details to a journalist in return for favorable coverage, after he left the company for a startup.
According to Mashable, Simon Lancaster had been Advanced Materials and Prototyping lead at Apple until he resigned in November 2019. The lawsuit accuses him of copying trade secrets from other projects so that he could supply them to an "outside media correspondent", who is currently unnamed.
After he left Apple, Lancaster joined Arris Composites as Head of Consumer Products. The company developed a system that was called Additive Molding. In it composite structures could be manufactured with a mixture of continuously aligned fibers, electronics, and metallic components.