“The misconduct of the defendants was brutal and Egregious,” says Apple's application. “After Mr. Prosser had learned that Mr. Ramacciotti needed money and that his friend Ethan Lipnik worked at Apple on unpublished software designs, the defendants were jointly planning to gain access to Apple's confidential and commercial information through the Apple ownership of Mr. Lipnik's Apple-ownership.”
The main source of information from Apple seems to be an audio message that Ramacciotti sent to Lipnik, which Lipnik subsequently provided to Apple. An e -mail from 4 April from an anonymous source, also shared in the application, called Lipnik as the source of the leaks and claimed that the involvement of Ramaciotti and three other names that have been darkened.
According to the submission, Lipnik was dismissed from Apple “because he did not follow Apple's policy, designed to protect his confidential information, including development equipment and non -released software and functions.” Lipnik also accuses the submission of not reporting “several previous infringements” to Apple.
For his part, Prosser claims that Apple's timeline of events is incorrect.
“This is not how the situation on my side took place,” Prosser published late on social media yesterday. “Fortunately I have vouchers for that.
Prosser then placed a screenshot of a messages app, dates from February, which means that he had received the information about the redesign from Liquid Glass that was unsolicited.
Apple's suit is looking for compensation by Prosser and Ramacciotti, and it wants to “protect his trade secrets” and “prevent the men from continuing to act illegally.” Although the company has already publicly announced iOS 26 and the liquid glass design, Apple Prosser and Ramacciotti describes as “a continuous threat” because Lipnik's telephone “contained other announced design elements that remain confidential”.
