Apple Widens OpenAI Trade-Secrets Fight With Dozens Of Legal Letters
The preservation notices, sent since Apple's July 10 suit, order roughly 40 ex-staff at OpenAI to keep every document and message.
- Apple sent about 40 preservation letters to former employees who left for OpenAI.
- The letters follow Apple's July 10, 2026 lawsuit alleging trade secret theft by ex-staff.
- Recipients must preserve documents, devices and communications, a routine step before formal discovery demands.
Why it matters: Suing forty individuals rather than one company disciplines every engineer still deciding whether to leave.
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