Apple has accused a former Apple Watch engineer of stealing confidential sensor technology and handing it to Oppo, a Chinese rival trying to catch up in the smartwatch market.
Apple alleged in a court filing with the Northern District of California on August 21, 2025, that former engineer Chen Shi copied trade secrets. Shi, who worked at Apple from 2020 to 2025 as a Sensor System Architect, is accused of taking the information before joining Oppo’s InnoPeak Technology in Palo Alto.
Apple claims Shi spent his final weeks inside the company, downloading 63 confidential files from its secure Box folder and copying them to a USB drive before resigning. He also held dozens of one-on-one meetings with colleagues to extract information.
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