The Apple OpenAI trial date is July 19, 2027, at 9 a.m. Judge Edward Davila set it in a case management order dated October 28, two weeks after both sides appeared before him on October 14.
Apple filed its trade secrets lawsuit on July 10 against OpenAI, io Products and two former Apple employees, Chang Liu and Tang Yew Tan. It accuses them of using Apple’s confidential information to help OpenAI enter consumer hardware. Davila’s October 13 order already pushed evidence out early, requiring the defendants to hand over forensic images, interview materials and Liu’s LINE messages with Alyssa Peng within 14 days, or five days for anything already collected.
The case’s key deadlines are November 30 and March 12
The first deadline is the exchange of electronically stored information (ESI) on November 2. Four weeks later, on November 30, comes the last day to amend pleadings or join parties.
Document production must be substantially complete by February 5, 2027, and fact discovery closes March 12. Davila also held both sides to the standard federal discovery limits and warned them not to plan around being allowed extra.
The October 13 order also let Apple depose Liu, Tan and Peng within 30 days of receiving the defendants’ responses. OpenAI’s research documents on metal finishes, power management and battery function stay in ordinary discovery.
Discovery disputes go to Davila first, and he decides whether to refer them to the magistrate judge. He took the same line on October 27, when he granted Apple access to Chang Liu’s AI tool records but declined to carve its early interrogatories out of the 25-interrogatory cap. Davila said he will hear motions to exceed the cap when they become necessary.
Apple OpenAI trial date follows a June motions hearing
Opening expert reports are due March 31, and expert discovery ends April 28. Daubert motions, which challenge expert testimony, and dispositive motions, which ask the judge to decide claims without a trial, are due May 5.
Lead counsel for both sides must meet and confer by June 1 on settlement, joint pretrial filings and narrowing the contested issues for trial. Apple’s preliminary injunction motion, filed in August alongside its request for early discovery, does not appear on the schedule.
Davila hears the expert and dispositive motions on June 10 at 9 a.m., 39 days before trial. Joint proposed jury instructions and voir dire are due that day, and the final pretrial conference follows on June 24 at 10 a.m.
