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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

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How public LLMs are reshaping trade secret law

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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