Intellectual Property
May 20, 2026
How public LLMs are reshaping trade secret law
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Jeremy T. Elman
Partner
Duane Morris LLP & Affiliates
Intellectual property and technology-related commercial disputes.
Phone: (650) 847-4162
Email: jelman@duanemorris.com
The rise of publicly available large language models ("public LLMs")--ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and others--has introduced a set of novel and largely unresolved challenges for trade secret law. While the rise of the internet has posed a similar problem of dissemination of information for decades, the AI revolution will suddenly force courts, companies and practitioners to reconsider the boundaries of secrecy, disclosure and reverse engineering much more quickly than previousl...
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