OpenAI accuses Apple of improperly adding new evidence to trade secrets case

OpenAI and the other defendants in Apple’s trade secret misappropriation lawsuit made a new filing, asking the court to strike two expert declarations and disregard other evidence Apple recently submitted. Here are the details. As frequent 9to5Mac readers probably know, Apple recently filed a trade secret theft lawsuit against OpenAI, Jony Ive’s io Products, and two former employees: Chang Liu and Tang Tan. In a nutshell, Apple is accusing its former employees of taking or accessing confidential hardware information after leaving the company and using it to benefit OpenAI’s consumer hardware efforts. Apple has specifically alleged that Chang Liu accessed confidential engineering files after leaving Apple, while alleging that Tang Tan sought confidential information from Apple employees interviewing for jobs.