2) Alleges he engaged in internal meetings "outside the scope of his work at Magic Leap" in order to gain useful information, while simultaneously neglecting his duties at work as he planned to start his own company in China. Before launching a product that looks and functions very similar to the Magic Leap product within a 2yr timespan (quitting in mid-2016, started in 2017, launched in 2019) while Magic Leap has been at it since 2010.
3) Their primary evidence seems to be some useless "Private Information" confidentiality form we all sign
4) The other is some Youtube interview the Nreal founder did where he openly admitted to being inspired by his work at Magic Leap:
Where he basically said that Magic Leap was being too ambitious with an "impossible" goal of trying to put it all in one small device... and he wanted to utilize Chinese manufacturing pipelines to build the same thing but much simpler by utilizing existing smartphone and laptop tech.
5) Finally another section compared demos by both companies, both involving whales:
> The resulting product, as demonstrated at CES and on publicly available videos, bears a striking similarity to the Confidential Designs that Magic Leap had under development before and during the time that Mr. Xu worked at Magic Leap, but which were not ultimately commercialized or publicly released.
A is not the same. It looks similar but the cut on the bottom has different angle. Also looking at it closer, even E is not the same. In magic leap the top cutout is bigger than bottom one, in nreal they have the same, equal size.
Oh come on, that logo type is extremely derivative of the Magic Leap one. n/m e, and a were essentially copied. They don't have to be exact copies to be stolen.
I'm very pro-theft in design as a learning and inspiration tool but it's extremely stupid when you both copy the logo font while also doing similar IP, when the cofounder worked there previously. It makes it look like they were baiting Magic Leap to complain. Even if the initial complaint is overall quite weak and the whole thing is probably futile.
> They don't have to be exact copies to be stolen.
A font would be covered under copyright so....I mean....legally, they do have to be exact copies, yes. And this one is not, so the entire discussion of the font seem legally irrelevant.
This is a complaint...it's the first step in a very long process of litigation.
In order to get to the next stage of litigation, it needs to allege just enough facts to make a "prima facie" showing (i.e., that it establishes at least some evidence of each claim).
If it makes that hurdle, the case proceeds to discovery, which is where both sides turn over documents, depose witnesses, etc., to determine the actual IP stolen (if any).
TLDR: it doesn't matter if the complaint is convincing. It's just the first step.
1) Using the same proprietary font in their logo was a really dumb idea:
> https://i.imgur.com/7pYZ8bp.png
2) Alleges he engaged in internal meetings "outside the scope of his work at Magic Leap" in order to gain useful information, while simultaneously neglecting his duties at work as he planned to start his own company in China. Before launching a product that looks and functions very similar to the Magic Leap product within a 2yr timespan (quitting in mid-2016, started in 2017, launched in 2019) while Magic Leap has been at it since 2010.
3) Their primary evidence seems to be some useless "Private Information" confidentiality form we all sign
4) The other is some Youtube interview the Nreal founder did where he openly admitted to being inspired by his work at Magic Leap:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcPB4POYkpc
Where he basically said that Magic Leap was being too ambitious with an "impossible" goal of trying to put it all in one small device... and he wanted to utilize Chinese manufacturing pipelines to build the same thing but much simpler by utilizing existing smartphone and laptop tech.
5) Finally another section compared demos by both companies, both involving whales:
Magic Leap's whale demos:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM0T6hLH15k
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyCoTzRzHxo
Nreal's twitter picture demo:
> https://i.imgur.com/jPIGMkf.png
That's about it. Points 2) and 3) get repeated ad-nauseam and not very convincingly IMO.