OpenAI Trademark Foe Must Turn Over Litigation Funding Documents
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The Case
The owner of the “Open AI” trademark must disclose documents detailing a former Apple Inc. executive’s funding of the legal fight with OpenAI Inc. over the domain www.open.ai.
Documents about Tom Gruber’s investments in the similarly named company, Open Artificial Intelligence Inc., are relevant to the Siri co-creator’s credibility and potential bias as a witness, according to an order filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
Legal Battle
Gruber supported the company’s accusation that OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Greg Brockman hijacked the open-source artificial general intelligence project. OpenAI sued Open Artificial Intelligence Inc. and its technologist...
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