2020 years 3 month 4 day, Us artificial intelligence start-up Neuromagic (Neural Magic) In a lawsuit filed in U. S. District Court in Massachusetts against former employee Alexander．Zlatsky (Aleksandar Zlateski) And Facebook (Facebook) Initiate a lawsuit, Saying they violated their trade secrets.

　　According to the lawsuit, Alexander, who now works at Google．Zlatsky shared with Google Neuromagic's "Secret weapon" , A computer algorithm that could revolutionize the field of artificial intelligence. Google then made the technology public as open source code.

　　According to Neuromagic: "Google in 2019 years 12 In January it was announced that an open source compiler had been released to the world. post-investigation, The compiler incorporates the same proprietary algorithms that form the core of our technology and intellectual property. "

　　Neuromagic is run by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Professor Neal．Shavit (Nir Shavit) and MIT Research scientist Alex．Matveyev (Alex Matveev) in 2017 Cofounded in 2000, It is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts.

　　The lawsuit also states: "As technical director of Neuromagic, Zlatsky had access to all the company's trade secrets, confidential, Proprietary information and future business plans. Here's the crucial point, He has also developed software for the compiler source code that contains Neuromagic's algorithm. "

　　Neuromagic points out, Zlatsky (The first employee of Neuromagic) He started working at Facebook after leaving.

　　Zlatsky had promised Neuromagic, The technology he will be developing has nothing to do with his work at Neuromagic. The start-up said: "We were wrong to trust Zlatsky, He violated the confidentiality agreement and non-compete agreement he signed with the company. "

　　2020 years 1 month, Lawyers for Neuromagic sent letters to Facebook and Zlatsky, To identify improper publication and request its removal, Pending investigation and further discussion.

　　however, According to Neuromagic, Facebook and Zlatsky's lawyers flatly refused to remove the code or agreed to stop further use of its proprietary and confidential information.

　　The company is also worried, Zlatsky may disclose more information to Facebook, Neuromagic, for example, is used to quickly run fully connected neural networks (fully connected neural networks) And convolutional neural networks (convolutional neural networks) And trade secret techniques to speed up the training of such networks.

　　At present, Neuromagic is seeking punitive damages, And asked the court for an injunction against Zlatsky and Facebook, They are prohibited from further use of their trade secrets.

(Compiled from www. worldipreview. com) 　　

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

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