Apple and OpenAI trade secrets lawsuit now has an official trial date

Judge Edward Davila today formally established the schedule for Apple’s trade secrets misappropriation lawsuit against two former employees, OpenAI, and io Products, including a trial date. Here are the details. A couple of weeks ago, during an October 14 case management conference, Judge Edward Davila instructed Apple and the defendants to agree on a proposed schedule for the lawsuit, working toward a tentative trial date of July 19, 2027. The parties were given until October 23 to submit their proposed schedule, which the judge has now formally established. As we’ve been covering since July, Apple filed this lawsuit accusing the defendants of improperly accessing or using confidential information about its products and technologies to help advance OpenAI’s consumer hardware development efforts.