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Sunnyvale, California-based chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) filed a lawsuit against four former employees who “collectively downloaded over 100,000 files onto external hard drives in the six months before leaving” to join competing graphics chip maker Nvidia. The company alleges that one former vice president and three former managers violated a “no solicitation of employees” promise by recruiting AMD employees after they went to work for its rival. The four defendants named in the lawsuit are Robert Feldstein, Richard Hagen, Manoo Desai and Nicolas Kociuk, and the allegations in AMD’s lawsuit include charges of misappropriation of trade secrets, violation of unfair competition laws, computer fraud, breach of employee’s duty of loyalty, breach of contract and conspiracy. The company alleges that Feldstein—the most senior person accused in AMD’s complaint—and Hagen recruited Desai after they left. Desai then recruited Kociuk “and perhaps additional AMD employees to leave AMD for competitor Nvidia,” according to the technology news website Ars Technica. The filing specifically notes that “three highly confidential files -- two licensing agreements with significant customers, and a document outlining proposed strategies to AMD’s strategic licensing -- were transferred,” according to the business technology news website ZDNet. AMD also alleges that one of the managers “ran several Internet searches about how to copy and/or delete large numbers of documents.” Robert G. Klein Klein Trial Lawyers
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