Jon Prosser says he’s been in ‘active communication’ with Apple over lawsuit

Although Apple said successful a caller tribunal filing that Jon Prosser “still has not” replied to the company’s July suit against him for allegedly stealing commercialized secrets, Prosser tells The Verge that helium is successful connection with Apple astir the case.

“All I tin archer you is that careless of what is being reported, and careless of what the tribunal documents accidental — I have, successful fact, been successful progressive communications with Apple since the opening stages of this case,” Prosser says. “The conception that I’m ignoring the lawsuit is incorrect. That’s each I americium capable to say.”

Last week, a clerk entered a default against Prosser, indicating that helium hadn’t responded to the July suit and allowing the lawsuit to spell ahead. In its request for introduction of default, Apple’s ineligible counsel says that the institution personally served Prosser the suit successful July and notified him of the August 19th deadline to respond. He did not respond by that date, and “despite Apple’s aggregate inquiries to Mr. Prosser astir whether helium would beryllium responding to the Complaint, Mr. Prosser inactive has not done so,” according to the filing.

In its lawsuit, Apple alleged that Prosser and different defendant, Michael Ramacciotti, had a “coordinated scheme” to “steal Apple’s commercialized secrets, and nett from the theft.” According to the complaint, Ramacciotti broke into a improvement iPhone utilized by a person that worked astatine Apple, called Prosser implicit video, and “demonstrated respective features and applications” of iOS 19, which was officially named iOS 26. Ahead of the announcement of the software, Prosser published videos highlighting changes to things similar the Camera app and showing elements of what would aboriginal beryllium revealed arsenic the Liquid Glass plan language. 

Apple didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment.