Nike Designer Job Hopping Adidas Is Charged With Espionage

Western media said, according to the Portland business magazine, Nike filed a complaint with the Federal District Court in Oregon on the 8 day, accusing it of this September. Adidas The company signed three former Nike designers for "espionage." Nike asked three people to compensate 8 million euros to make up for their losses, and said that the three people had provided information to Adidas before they submitted their resignation.

December 10th report, February 2006, world Sports goods Nike, the market leader, claims that Adidas Adidas has plagiarized Nike's "Shox" technology and filed a lawsuit against the Federal District Court in Texas, demanding huge compensation. Since then, there have been more and more disputes between Nike and Adidas in terms of patent rights, events and sponsorship and senior staff recruitment.

Although the two companies have experienced unbelievable confrontations in the past, that kind of confrontation has never reached the present level. Nike said the three designers joined Adidas's R & D studio opened in Broolyn, New York in September, and the only thing they did was to copy all the work they had done for Nike's product design studio in recent years.

Nike said in its indictment that Adidas now has the concept of all the design, materials and clothing that Nike will launch in the coming quarters, from a series of different footwear products from different sports to the 2016 European Cup Jersey design, and even Nike's sponsorship plan and confidential financial information.

　　 Nike The company's lawyers said: "the information is disseminated to Nike irreparable damage, because this makes Nike's main competitors can effectively resist the next three to four years Nike in all markets can do all the actions." In addition, the lawyer of Nike also pointed out that the payment fees of the lawyers of the three designers were also doubtful. According to Nike's lawyer, Adidas may have agreed with them before they signed the contract, and the company would bear the cost.

On the other hand, three designers rejected all allegations of Nike in a statement drafted by their lawyer. The statement reads: "Nike's accusations are false, or only part of the facts. We did not steal commercial secrets when we left Nike in September.