Taiwan prosecutors on Friday accused a Chinese Apple supplier of stealing commercial secrets from a Taiwanese supplier and poaching its employees to win orders from a US company, saying it had charged 14 people.
Taiwan is stepping up efforts to stop covert and illegal activities by Chinese firms so that the government of Taipei can steal and take away talent as a threat to the island’s technological prowess.
Prosecutors in New Taipei said after a year-and-a-half investigation they found that China’s Luxshare Precision Industry had targeted Taiwan’s competitor Catcher Technology “to penetrate quickly.” Apple production chain to win orders.”
Luxshare “Allure” Catcher ChinaProsecutors stole business secrets from the research and development team and Taiwanese firm with the promise of higher salaries, causing them major losses, prosecutors said in a statement.
Luxshare was doing this to be able to “quickly build factories and in terms of mass production”. iphone, ipad and other products,” the statement said.
LuxShare did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and neither did Apple.
Taipei’s new prosecutors have now charged 14 people with breach of trust and taking commercial secrets for use abroad, he said.
“The department will do its best to investigate such matters in order to maintain the sound development of the enterprises of our country and ensure the competitiveness of the national industries.”
Catcher, which makes iPhone and iPad cases, said in a statement that it continues to implement and optimize trade secrets and intellectual property rights protections, and investigate anything that violates its rights and interests. Will do
The company is cooperating with the investigation.
In May, Taiwanese authorities raided 10 companies operating in Taiwan or their R&D centers without suspicion of illegal poaching. piece engineers and other technical talents.
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