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Intellectual Property,
Criminal

Jun. 18, 2018

Current and former Fitbit employees indicted on trade secret possession charges

Six current and former employees of Fitbit Inc. have been indicted for allegedly possessing stolen trade secrets.

Six current and former employees of Fitbit Inc. have been indicted on charges of possessing stolen trade secrets.

The charges, announced Thursday, are the latest event in a legal saga between the San Francisco-based exercise tracking device company and Jawbone, a now-defunct rival. All six of those charged were former Jawbone employees who left in 2014 and 2015 to join Fitbit.

Fitbit has denied a...

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