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The 2021 Wisk v. Archer confidential-information suit, Archer's $1 billion countersuit and the settlement that preceded the acquisition.
Bricks & Minifigs sued the anonymous operators of The BAM Map after filing two copyright takedowns over internal documents the site published. Its complaint swaps copyright for trade-secret and contract claims that point at someone inside BAM's own franchise network.
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OpenAI frames the conduct as ex-colleagues asking questions and a retained offboarding doc. Apple's response says the complaint is about an authentication bug and weeks of downloads.
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Forensics on an Apple-issued MacBook that Chang Liu kept using after January let Apple argue destruction of evidence rather than definition of secrets, days before a judge weighs blocking OpenAI's hardware work.
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In a joint filing made public last week, Apple asked to put its own forensic experts on the images the defendants' experts already read, and for OpenAI's records on metal finishes, power management and battery work.
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Apple wants OpenAI's internal communications, the accounts that held allegedly confidential material and the employees who touched it, all before a hearing on an injunction against a device OpenAI has yet to release.
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Citizens brings a civil RICO count over SoFi's hiring of more than 30 of its mortgage employees across nine states, and asks a Connecticut federal court to bar use of the client data and pricing models it says left with them.
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Prosecutors opened in Brooklyn calling Huawei a criminal enterprise, but Epoch AI's numbers put the ceiling on China's AI-chip stack in high-bandwidth memory, which could hold Huawei near 1% of Nvidia's output through 2028.
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Apple's July suit says departing engineers carried hardware designs to OpenAI. OpenAI's answer is that Apple's own habit of pushing work into personal iCloud accounts blurred the boundary it now has to prove was crossed.
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The defendants want dismissal with prejudice, which means the October 1 hearing turns on whether Apple named its secrets precisely enough, not on whether two former employees did what Apple says they did.
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Apple's reply in its trade-secret suit asks for forensic imaging and a corporate deposition at the outset, and pulls its document window back to before its engineer resigned.
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Archer Aviation bought its former courtroom adversary plus a software unit and a drone maker. The consideration was equity, and the acquired assets sell things today.
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