trade secrets

OpenAI’s August 3 broadside against Apple has exposed a real offboarding and information-governance problem, but it has not answered Apple’s central accusation: whether former Apple engineers took protectable trade secrets and whether OpenAI or its hardware unit used them. The sharpest reading...

Apple’s July 10 trade-secret lawsuit against OpenAI turns the AI hardware race into an immediate governance problem for every enterprise hiring in a competitive market: the most valuable “asset” walking into an interview may be a former employer’s confidential product knowledge. The complaint...

Apple’s claim that OpenAI “never responded” to its February concerns over alleged trade-secret theft is now complicated by an email mix-up that reportedly ended settlement talks before they properly began. NBC News reports that OpenAI did answer Apple’s initial outreach. The exchange then broke...

Apple has filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI and io Products in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that former Apple employees Tang Yew Tan and Chang Liu stole trade secrets to accelerate OpenAI’s consumer-hardware ambitions. Apple seeks undisclosed...

Apple sued OpenAI, io Products, Tang Yew Tan, and Chang Liu in federal court in San Jose, California. Apple seeks damages and an order blocking the defendants from possessing or using alleged trade secrets. The immediate forward-looking question is whether Apple can obtain an injunction capable...