The 41-page lawsuit Apple filed against OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets is a good read. Unless you’re OpenAI, that is. The suit alleges nothing short of a wide-scale corporate espionage campaign carried out by ex-Apple employees who joined OpenAI, according to the filing.
The case centers on two lesser-known OpenAI employees: Tang Yew Tan and Chang Liu. Apple alleges Tan and Liu engaged in “a pattern of theft” of its trade secrets, which are some of the “most valuable intellectual assets in all of American business.” Apple is suing them for two things: “Breach of Intellectual Property Agreement” and “Misappropriation of Trade Secrets in Violation of the Defend Trade Secrets Act.”
