Apple Seeks Preliminary Injunction Against OpenAI in Trade Secrets Case
Apple says former employees and OpenAI used confidential hardware information to speed a consumer-device push, while OpenAI denies wrongdoing and cites internal messages and emails.
- Apple has asked a U.S. federal judge to issue a preliminary injunction preventing OpenAI and two former employees from accessing or using confidential trade secrets.
- The legal motion expands upon an earlier lawsuit accusing OpenAI and its hardware collaborators of misappropriating proprietary designs to accelerate their own consumer devices.
- Apple's filing also demands expedited discovery and sworn depositions from key individuals and corporate entities linked to the dispute.
- OpenAI has strongly denied the accusations, stating publicly that the injunction request relies on false claims and that it possesses no interest in Apple's intellectual property.
- The high-stakes legal battle highlights the escalating corporate rivalry between the two tech giants over next-generation artificial intelligence hardware.
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In an application filed on Monday in a federal court in San Jose, California, Apple no longer describes the mere lay-out of employees, referred to in its initial complaint on July 10, but "repeated acts of deliberate theft" intended to "advance OpenAI's program and ambitions in the equipment." OpenAI "cannot be allowed to use Apple's secrets to take an undue advance" in this competition, writes the iPhone manufacturer, who sees it as a competiti…
In a petition filed on Monday before a federal court in San Jose, Apple denounces "repeated acts of deliberate flight", which it claims were intended to "promote the program and ambitions of OpenAI in the equipment".
OpenAI's project to launch its first connected objects is at the heart of a judicial battle that got tougher this week: Apple called for a stop to the use of its industrial secrets and the search of the computers of ChatGPT's creator, who responded by asking for the abandonment of "unfounded" lawsuits.
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The cordiality in Silicon Valley long ago gave way to an environment in which tension is felt among the companies of reference. In recent years it has been customary to attend the transfer of employees among technology, but never before had that dynamic ended with a judicial battle such as the one posed by Apple last July against OpenAI for the alleged theft of business secrets. Meanwhile, ChatGPT’s developer laboratory categorically denied any …
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