Prof. Camilla Hrdy was quoted in Bloomberg Law about a new trade secrets case, OpenEvidence v. Pathway, in which a generative AI company accused a competitor of stealing trade secrets. Hrdy blogs on the new trade secret case here.
The Bloomberg Law article states, in relevant part:
“This is exactly the kind of case I was expecting, where a competitor is accused of extracting secrets,” said IP and contracts law professor Camilla Hrdy of Rutgers University, who has written multiple papers on trade secrets and other IP in AI. “We don’t know what companies are going to view as their so-called crown jewels. It’s so new, we don’t know what they are and how hard it’s going to be to reverse engineer these things.”
The article is entitled Kyle Jahner, “Trade Secrets Law Is Awkward Fit in AI Prompt-Hacking Lawsuit, BLOOMBERG LAW, March 14, 2025.
The full Bloomberg article can be accessed at this link: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/trade-secrets-law-is-awkward-fit-in-ai-prompt-hacking-lawsuit?context=search&index=0