Microsoft suit alleges ex-worker stole trade secrets

From CNET News.com: Microsoft has sued a former employee for allegedly lying when he applied for a job there and stealing trade secrets that were later used in a lawsuit against Microsoft partners.

According to the lawsuit, filed January 22 in King County Superior Court, Miki Mullor stated on his application that he no longer worked at Ancora Technologies because it had gone out of business. However, Sammamish, Wash.-based Ancora was still in existence and he was the chief executive, the lawsuit alleges. (The Ancora site was inaccessible on Friday.)

Mullor was hired as a program manager in the Windows Security Group in November 2005, the lawsuit states. According to the suit, Mullor allegedly downloaded confidential documents onto his company-issued laptop at some point that were related to the subsequent patent lawsuit, and then allegedly used a file-wiping program and a "defrag" utility designed to overwrite deleted files in order to hide the tracks.

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