Apple settles with former employee accused of stealing trade secrets
by Jay Peters from The Verge - All Posts on (#65FXP)
Apple has settled its lawsuit against Simon Lancaster. | Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Apple has settled its lawsuit against Simon Lancaster, a former design architect, who the company accused of stealing trade secrets and sharing them with a journalist. The company filed its suit in March 2021, and the settlement order was approved by a judge this week.
Despite over a decade of employment at Apple, Lancaster abused his position and trust within the company to systematically disseminate Apple's sensitive trade secret information in an effort to obtain personal benefits," Apple wrote in its original complaint. He used his seniority to gain access to internal meetings and documents outside the scope of his job's responsibilities containing Apple's trade secrets, and he provided these trade secrets to his outside media...