Apple Seeks 30-50 Day Discovery in Trade Secrets Suit Against OpenAI
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Updated · Computerworld · Aug 26
Apple Seeks 30-50 Day Discovery in Trade Secrets Suit Against OpenAI
3 articles · Updated · Computerworld · Aug 26
Summary
Apple asked the court to fast-track discovery within 30 to 50 days, seeking documents, communications, forensic imaging and depositions in its trade-secrets case against OpenAI.
The iPhone maker says speed is needed because each day without an injunction could let OpenAI further embed allegedly stolen Apple know-how into hardware development, making any harm harder to unwind.
Apple ties the request to alleged exfiltration by former employees, including ex-product design vice president Tang Tan, and set the proposed discovery window to material from on or after Aug. 1, 2023.
OpenAI is opposing the accelerated schedule as unnecessary and overly broad, arguing Tan followed standard industry practices, no secrets were stolen, and Apple should have better protected its own information.
The motion sharpens a broader fight over whether OpenAI used Apple manufacturing and design knowledge as it builds new hardware efforts with roughly 400 former Apple employees, including Jony Ive.