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In AI hardware development, institutional knowledge is the scarce input.
The engineers who built a device's on-chip inference engine and sensor fusion architecture carry those decisions with them when they leave, and no employment contract can fully quarantine what a person knows.
Trade secret litigation is the mechanism incumbents reach for when that knowledge starts walking toward a competitor.
Apple has filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, and OpenAI is now moving to dismiss it, arguing the case is structured to stop employees from leaving rather than to defend specific proprietary material.
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