Judge advances trade secrets theft case against ex-Apple engineer

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A federal judge in San Jose refused to dismiss Apple's lawsuit against former engineer Chen Shi, ruling the tech giant plausibly alleged he took Apple Watch health-sensor trade secrets to rival companies Oppo and InnoPeak.

Judge Eumi Lee's order details Apple's claim that Shi downloaded 63 documents from a protected folder late at night, three days before leaving, then moved them to a USB drive the day before his exit. Apple says Oppo's health division head recruited Shi and presented the material to rival engineers in exchange for a job and salary.

Apple says it spent hundreds of millions developing the Watch's heart rate, blood oxygen, and rhythm-detection features. The court has yet to rule on Apple's separate request to force Oppo to quarantine exposed employees and audit its systems.

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Three days before you quit a job is an odd time to be hauling files onto a thumb drive at midnight, and a judge seems to agree that timing is the whole story here. Big companies guard their secrets like a dog guards a bone, and this one's got the paperwork to prove it. Nobody's proven anything yet, but the calendar alone is doing a lot of talking.

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