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A US judge has partly granted Apple’s request for expedited discovery in its trade-secrets case against OpenAI, Bloomberg Law reports. The order requires OpenAI to provide forensic images of devices and other documents.

The ruling is a step in the evidence-gathering process, not a finding that OpenAI stole trade secrets. The report’s headline does not specify which devices or documents are covered, so the scope of the order remains unclear here. The case puts a concrete legal dispute between two major technology companies into focus: how much access should a court require when one side alleges trade-secret theft?

Discuss: When a company alleges trade-secret theft, how broad should a court’s early evidence-gathering orders be?

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