Fitbit employees charged with stealing trade secrets from competitor Jawbone

Re:Fitbit employees charged with stealing trade secrets from... by foobaw on Thursday June 14, 2018 @11:31PM (#17317343)

I wonder what was actually stolen.

I hope this is not the reason why Jawbone is undergoing liquidation and Fitbit IPOed.(I'm sure there are many more reasons, but it'd be shocking these stolen trade secrets were contributing factors).

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Re:Fitbit employees charged with stealing trade secrets from... by sulam on Friday June 15, 2018 @01:55AM (#17317791)

Jawbone has already sued Fitbit over this case I believe. That case was settled:

https://www.wareable.com/fitbit/jawbone-fitbit-legal-dispute...

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Re:Fitbit employees charged with stealing trade secrets from... by brlewis on Friday June 15, 2018 @08:42AM (#17319315)

The settlement was regarding patents. From your link:

Last year a judge ruled in Fitbit's favor, stating that "no party has been shown to have misappropriated any trade secret." The fight rumbled on over some patents, but now it's all over, as Fitbit announced in a statement.

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Re:Fitbit employees charged with stealing trade secrets from... by sulam on Friday June 15, 2018 @09:49AM (#17319736)

It started as a trade secrets case that was dismissed and Jawbone tacked on patents and that was settled. Full disclosure, I work at Fitbit. Since we are not a party to this new case I can at least talk about the public info with the old one!

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Re:Fitbit employees charged with stealing trade secrets from... by analogmemory on Friday June 15, 2018 @06:24AM (#17318701)

Maybe they stole the plans to make speakers that crap out after a year. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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