[ricefield]

> Apple filed the lawsuit in Santa Clara County Superior Court against Gerard Williams III, who left the company last year after more than nine years as chief architect for the custom processors that power iPhones and iPads to start Nuvia Inc, which is designing chips for servers.

[outworlder]

Chief architect. AKA engineer.

[ricefield]

His LinkedIn literally says, "Senior Director": https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerard-williams-iii-27895aa/

It's not like he was some kind of low-ranking IC engineer

[kelnos]

Director in this sense does not mean what it means in the definition for "duty of loyalty", which is talking about board members, not (even high-ranking) employees.

[gamblor956]

Wikipedia is good for a broad definition of the term "duty of loyalty" but in CA that duty extends to all employees (see e.g. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/sd-fi-eaton-26...).

[outworlder]

Well, being a "senior director" (sounds like an oxymoron to me) would seem to apply.