Stolen Trade Secrets Could Give Rival a Competitive Edge in Responding to Tariffs, Samsung Alleges in Non-Compete Suit

When a Samsung Electronics gross sales staff member was promoted to a senior product advertising administration place, she signed a non-compete clause agreeing to not take an analogous place at a competing firm for six months after leaving. Nonetheless, a month after saying her resignation, a number of Samsung staff noticed the ex-manager at a commerce present approaching former clients on behalf of her new firm’s direct competitor, Midea, the worldwide electronics big has alleged in a brand new lawsuit. Samsung launched an investigation into what the worker was as much as and claims that it realized the worker secretly forwarded spreadsheets with Samsung’s gross sales knowledge to a private electronic mail handle earlier than leaving the corporate.