What Do We Know About Apple’s Request For A Preliminary Injunction?
Apple filed a for a preliminary injunction on Monday before a California Federal Court to prevent its former employees and OpenAI from “accessing, acquiring, using or disclosing Apple’s trade secrets.” Apple also wants the injunction to block the plaintiffs from soliciting or encouraging others to access its secrets and “stop destroying, deleting or concealing evidence.” The filing notes that after Apple filed its suit, it sent another letter to OpenAI outlining five conditions under which it would skip filing such an injunction. It alleges that the ChatGPT-maker agreed to three conditions: no future access or soliciting of such information, halt any existing access, use or soliciting efforts and preserve relevant evidence. However, OpenAI rejected Apple’s request to allow its counsel and third-party forensic analysts to “inspect, image, and analyze all devices, storage drives, and accounts in OpenAI’s possession” for any of Apple’s secrets and “search any OpenAI network location where any Apple proprietary and trade secret information may have been transferred or stored.” The iPhone maker’s filing noted that it would be “irreparably harmed absent a preliminary injunction,” and adds: “OpenAI, its people, and partners should not be permitted to develop, release, and benefit from products using and developed with the benefit of Apple’s trade secrets.”
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Chief Critic
“Apple’s request for a preliminary injunction is both based on false information and completely unnecessary because we do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets. We’re much more interested in building innovative products and technologies that push the frontier,” OpenAI notes in its blog post.
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Further reading
Apple Claims OpenAI Stole Trade Secrets In New Lawsuit (Forbes)