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District judge assigned to oversee Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI

A federal district judge will oversee Apple’s lawsuit accusing OpenAI of using stolen intellectual property to advance its hardware efforts.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman – image credit: Emerson Collective

In early July, Apple sued OpenAI after alleging that two ex-employees successfully stole intellectual property to enrich OpenAI’s development efforts. Now, on Thursday, a judge has been assigned to the case.

Initially, when the suit was first filed, it was randomly assigned to Magistrate Judge Virginia K. DeMarchi. Now, it seems as though U.S. District Judge Edward Davila will oversee the case.

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