Apple, OpenAI agree to proposed safeguards for confidential information in legal dispute
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Apple Inc. and OpenAI have jointly submitted a proposed protective order to a US federal court seeking safeguards for confidential business information, trade secrets and other sensitive material exchanged during their ongoing legal dispute. The 39-page stipulated proposed order was filed on October 21 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division, in Apple Inc. v. Chang Liu et al., case number 5:26-cv-07078-EJD. The filing also covers individual defendants Chang Liu and Tang Yew Tan, OpenAI Foundation, OpenAI Group PBC and io Products LLC.Under the proposed framework, material designated as protected would be used solely for prosecuting, defending or attempting to settle the litigation, and not for unrelated litigation, patent prosecution or business and competitive purposes.
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