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Tesla Alleges Ex-Employees Working For Competitors Stole Trade Secrets

• https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan

Surprisingly, Huawei was not mentioned in the suits.

The lawsuits seek damages for the theft, with one alleging that four former employees of Tesla, Scott Turner, Christian Dement, Craig Emigh and Sydney Cooper, misused proprietary information for boosting Zoox's warehousing, logistics, and inventory control operations. The lawsuit claims "blatant and intentional" use of Tesla's proprietary technologies by Zoox. 

The suit also says that the former employees stole "select proprietary Tesla documents useful to their new employer."

A second lawsuit claims that former employee Guangzhi Cao stole code from Tesla's Autopilot driver assistance. The complaint alleged that Cao stole highly sensitive source code before abruptly quitting the job to join Xiaopeng. Cao allegedly copied more than 300,000 files of Autopilot source code. Xiaopeng's investors include Alibaba and Foxconn.


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