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Sarah Tishler was quoted in a New York Times article about concerns that American AI companies are being targeted by Chinese copycats. The story is titled “American A.I. Companies Say Chinese Copycats Are Quickly Catching Up.” The June 6, 2026, article was written by Cade Metz, who writes about technology for The New Yo...

Two trade secret complaints against OpenAI, both filed in the Northern District of California, now sit on opposite sides of the line that separates a viable DTSA claim from one that gets dismissed. xAI's lawsuit against OpenAI was thrown out on June 15, 2026, following Judge Rita Lin’s order granting OpenAI’s motion to d...

On May 14, 2026, Sarah Tishler will be speaking at this year’s American Intellectual Property Law Association's Spring Meeting. The AIPLA’s Spring Meeting is taking place in San Francisco. Sarah will be joining a panel of experts on a panel titled "The Impact of AI on Trade Secrets: What Every Lawyer and Client Needs...

For most of the past year, when AI companies have talked about distillation, they have talked about it as a Chinese problem. In February 2026, OpenAI told the House Select Committee on China that DeepSeek employees had developed methods to circumvent OpenAI’s access restrictions and programmatically harvest outputs to tr...

On April 23 and 24, 2026, Russell Beck and Sarah Tishler will be speaking at this year’s American Intellectual Property Law Association's Trade Secret Summit. The AIPLA’s Trade Secret Summit is taking place in Fort Worth, Texas. On April 23, Russell Beck gave a presentation titled "Government Enforcement and Legislation...

For years, AI companies have told courts, regulators, and the public the same thing: their models don't store copies of training data. OpenAI put it plainly to the U.S. Copyright Office in 2023: "the models do not store copies of the information that they learn from." Google said much the same, as did numerous commentato...

Imagine a pharmaceutical company that deploys a network of AI agents to accelerate early-stage drug discovery. The agents work autonomously, analyzing biological datasets, running simulated trials, identifying molecular structures that human researchers had not considered. After six months, the system surfaces a...

Sarah Tishler was recently quoted in a Bloomberg Law article about the intersection of artificial intelligence and trade secrets. he article, titled "AI Will Force Trade Secret Calculus Shift, Escalate Tactics," addresses the impact of AI on trade secret law and related concerns about the technology's ability to gener...

The dismissal of xAI's trade secret claims against OpenAI earlier this month meant that the court never reached what will surely be one of the thorniest questions in AI trade secret litigation: at the end of the day, how would xAI be able to prove that OpenAI actually used any stolen trade secrets? My earlier coverage di...

Sarah Tishler was recently quoted in an Ars Technica article about the litigation between xAI and OpenAI. he article, titled "Musk has no proof OpenAI stole xAI trade secrets, judge rules, tossing lawsuit," addresses a recent decision by Judge Rita Lin of the Northern District of California granting OpenAI’s motion to...

  The high-profile litigation between xAI and OpenAI has reached a significant turning point, with Judge Rita Lin of the Northern District of California granting OpenAI's motion to dismiss xAI's First Amended Complaint on February 24, 2026. The dismissal was granted with leave to amend, giving xAI until March 17,...