A former Tesla engineeradmitted on Mondaythat in front of leaving the company and joining a challenger , he upload Tesla files to his personal iCloud account as well as made .zip files with the company ’s Autopilot “ trade secrets . ” However , the ex - employee , Guangzhi Cao , is denying Tesla ’s claims that he rent in trade secret larceny .
“ Despite the obscure innuendo in Tesla ’s ill ( and in its recitation of the ‘ fact ’ above ) that its craft secrets are ‘ at risk ’ and that Tesla ‘ must learn what Cao has done with Tesla ’s IP , ’ … the truth of this typesetter’s case is that Cao has done precisely nothing with Tesla ’s IP,”according to a joint statementfrom Cao responding to the electric car party ’s allegation against him .
In the motor hotel filing from this workweek , Cao did acknowledge Tesla ’s accusations that he collected a bunch of party noetic property as true , but he put forward that characterizing his actions as trade theft were inaccurate . Cao also admit that he did n’t tell Tesla that while he was still employed at the troupe he gathered company root codification onto his personal accounts , but that the company never ask about it after he impart for Xiaopeng Motors ( aka XMotors or XPeng ) , a China - based Tesla rival . According to the filing , Cao create the .zip filing cabinet in late 2018 , was declare oneself a task at XMotors by November 26 , 2018 , and throw in the towel his Book of Job at Tesla on January 3 , 2019 .
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Tesla register a lawsuit against Cao in March of this year exact he had uploaded more than 300,000 file and directories with source code related to the ship’s company ’s robot pilot to his iCloud account , “ repeatedly logged into Tesla ’s secure networks ” to delete his web browser history , as well as recruited another Tesla employee to his current employer , reportedthe Verge .
“ missing prompt relief , Tesla believes Cao and his new employer , [ XPeng ] , will continue to have unfettered access to Tesla ’s marquee technology , the intersection of more than five years ’ study and over hundred of millions of buck of investment funds , which they have no legal right to have , ” the party ’s attorney wrote , according to the Verge .
Cao ’s admission this calendar week effectively jibe with part of Tesla ’s accusal — yes , he did upload a shit - ton of caller source computer code to his personal bill , but no , he did n’t use that selective information for the welfare of his new employer . In fact , Cao voluntarily offered to give over forensic copy of his personal electronic devices and all of their contents for Tesla to investigate , harmonise to the joint command .
“ This is a lawsuit about routine employee offboarding offspring that could and should have been resolved by Tesla either through its own human resources or information engineering science insurance policy , ” Cao write in the joint statement , “ or alternatively , through a prelitigation varsity letter promote the concerns that Tesla resolve instead to raise in the first instance in a publicly - file complaint . ”
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