 "Ex-Apple employee pleads not guilty in self-driving car trade secret case"){kind=logo}
A former Apple Inc employee pleaded not guilty on 16 July after federal prosecutors filed an indictment accusing him of stealing trade secrets. [caption id=“attachment_4745031” align=“alignnone” width=“1024”] The Apple logo is seen on a computer screen in this illustration photo taken in Bordeaux, France, February 1, 2017.[/caption] Federal officials on 12 July indicted Xiaolang Zhang on a single count of trade secret theft, alleging that Zhang had
**stolen a 25-page blueprint** for a circuit board designed to be used in an autonomous vehicle, according to the indictment filed in US District Court for the Northern District of California.
The formal indictment followed a filing by a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent on 10 July describing the charge and Zhang’s arrest at a Silicon Valley airport before boarding a flight to China.
Zhang pleaded not guilty at a hearing on 10 July in San Jose. He had been provisionally appointed a public defender, but has retained his own lawyer, Daniel Olmos.
Olmos declined to comment on the case. A spokesman for the US Attorney for the Northern District of California declined to comment beyond the indictment.
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