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Here’s Apple’s official response to OpenAI’s trade secret theft allegations

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Here’s Apple’s official response to OpenAI’s trade secret theft allegations

Apple has responded to OpenAI’s allegations that one of its former employees who departed for Apple took confidential files along with him. Here are the details.

Earlier this year, Apple filed a trade secret misappropriation lawsuit against two former employees (Chang Liu and Tang Tan), OpenAI, and io Products.

And while this case has had its twists and turns, things took an even more unexpected turn yesterday when a new OpenAI filing alleged essentially the same thing, but in reverse.

As we covered in more detail here, OpenAI claims that a former employee who departed for Apple sent “over a hundred highly confidential files about at least one unreleased OpenAI device under development to his personal accounts.”

Soon after OpenAI made its filing, Reuters reported that “Apple said it has policies and procedures ​in place to ensure new employees do not use confidential information from previous employers and it has found no evidence to support OpenAI’s ​allegations.”

Now, Apple’s response, along with two supplementary exhibits, has been made public in a new court filing, providing more details about its investigation and challenging OpenAI’s decision to bring the allegations before the judge.

In its response, the company notes that OpenAI made the filing “without any notice to Apple,” and adds that OpenAI’s allegations are “unrelated to the claims” in its main trade secret misappropriation case.

Interestingly, Apple shares that the employee at the center of these new allegations “had left Apple for OpenAI and subsequently decided to return to Apple.”


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