Apple escalates its trade secret litigation and applies for an injunction to prevent OpenAI from developing related AI hardware. The trade secret dispute between Apple and OpenAI further escalates

Apple escalates its trade secret litigation and applies for an injunction to prevent OpenAI from developing related AI hardware. The trade secret dispute between Apple and OpenAI has further escalated. Apple recently applied to the court for a preliminary injunction, requesting to restrict OpenAI from continuing to develop AI devices and related products suspected of using Apple technology, and applying to expedite the evidence collection process against OpenAI, its foundation, AI hardware startup io, as well as OpenAI senior system engineer Chang Liu, chief hardware officer Tang Yew Tan and other related parties. The latest court documents show that Apple continues to investigate and believes that in addition to those involved in the initial prosecution, there are 11 former Apple employees who may be related to the case or hold key evidence. Apple said that new evidence showed that a former employee discussed proprietary information about unreleased products with the people involved before the OpenAI interview, and that another former employee had intercepted confidential documents involving unreleased products. In addition, Apple said that after the lawsuit was launched, many current OpenAI employees and former Apple employees took the initiative to contact them to return the Apple devices they kept when they left their jobs, which further aroused its concerns about the scope of intellectual property leakage. Therefore, it requested the court to speed up the collection of evidence and cooperate with the ongoing preliminary injunction application. In response to this, OpenAI publicly responded that Apple’s application for a ban was “based on false information and unnecessary”, emphasizing that the company has neither obtained nor intended to obtain Apple’s trade secrets, and the focus of research and development has always been on innovative products and technologies. OpenAI also countered that Apple had previously mistakenly sent emails to unrelated people due to name confusion, and accused Apple of failing to admit that some former employees could still access internal systems due to its own rights management loopholes. As the legal attacks and defenses between the two parties around trade secrets and AI hardware research and development continue to escalate, this lawsuit may have a lasting impact on intellectual property protection and industry competition in the field of AI hardware. via AI News (author: AI Base)