recently, A former executive of the US company Uber Technologies has been charged with stealing trade secrets from a Californian shipping logistics company. The executive was a board member of the shipping logistics company.

Vanguard Logistics service company (Vanguard Logistics Services Inc) frasier．Robinson (Fraser Robinson) in 2018 And conspired with another former Uber executive to steal its algorithms, Data and other intellectual property, And created the London-based Beacon Technology company (Beacon Technologies Ltd) .

2020 years 10 month 27 day, The logistics companies filed a lawsuit in U. S. District Court in Los Angeles against Robinson and Beacon Filed a lawsuit. Vanguard Seek substantial compensation and punitive damages, And demanded that the violators return what they had stolen. 2020 years 10 month 28 day, Robinson and Beacon A spokesman for the company was not immediately available for comment. Vanguard There was no immediate response to a request for additional comment.

2020 years 5 month 31 day, Beacon The announcement has been made from executives including Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos．Bezos (Jeff Bezos) And San Francisco venture capital 8VC And other investors have raised more than 1500 Ten thousand dollars of capital. The tech company's backers also include Uber co-founder Travis．Kalanick (Travis Kalanick) And former Google CEO Eric．Schmidt (Eric Schmidt) .

Vanguard representation, When Uber is in 2017 years 3 Launched a truck-hailing service in January Uber Freight when, Robinson developed an interest in the transportation and logistics business. He was overseeing Uber in Europe, Middle East and Africa business. Vanguard Also pointed out that, Robinson in 2017 The owner of the company was approached at the end of the year, And serves as a consultant and director of the company. but, The logistics company says it's a "disguise" .

Because in winning Vanguard After the owner's trust, Robinson began to steal confidential information from the company, And with another former Uber executive, Dmitri．Izmailov (Dmitri Izmailov) Secret cooperation, created Beacon. Robinson and Beacon All the defendants in this lawsuit.

(Compiled from ca. finance. yahoo. com)

Reprinted from China Intellectual Property Network   translation: Li Yanqiu　proofread: Liu Peng

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