Ex Samsung Manager Spills The Beans On Leaking Ipad Trade Secrets
A manager for Samsung has admitted in court to passing Apple’s trade secrets to Mountain View-based Primary Global Research’s executive James Fleishman and an unnamed fund manager, after being granted immunity from prosecution by U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff. Bloomberg describes how Suk-Joo Hwang, a long-time Samsung veteran, had passed information involving shipments of Samsung’s LCD displays to Apple before the original iPad debuted. He recalled one case of sharing trade secrets with Fleischman over lunch at a California restaurant:...