01/10/2026
Ahmadshahi Law Offices is representing MITII, Inc. against OpenAI alleging OpenAI’s Sora app infringes 4 of MITII’s patents in a patent infringement action entitled MITII, Inc. v. OpenAI Opco, LLC, Case No.: 5:26-cv-00191-NC.
OpenAI’s conduct demonstrates a troubling disregard for the intellectual property rights of creators, publishers, and innovators across the United States. In The New York Times v. OpenAI & Microsoft (S.D.N.Y., Case No. 1:23 cv 11195), the Times alleges that OpenAI systematically ingested its journalism to train ChatGPT, producing outputs that replicate or closely summarize its articles without license. Likewise, in Ziff Davis v. OpenAI (S.D.N.Y., MDL Case No. 1:24 md 03081) and Raw Story Media & AlterNet Media v. OpenAI (same MDL), publishers accuse OpenAI of scraping their content and even stripping copyright management information in violation of the DMCA. These cases reveal a pattern: OpenAI has treated the creative labor of journalists and publishers as raw material for its commercial gain, without consent or compensation.
Authors have also been forced to defend their rights against OpenAI’s overreach. In Silverman v. OpenAI (N.D. Cal., Case No. 3:23 cv 03416), comedian and author Sarah Silverman, joined by Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden, alleges that ChatGPT can summarize their books verbatim, proving the works were ingested into training datasets. Parallel suits by Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad (Case No. 3:23 cv 03223) and Michael Chabon and other prominent writers (Case No. 3:23 cv 04625) underscore the breadth of the infringement. The Authors Guild’s class action (S.D.N.Y., Case No. 1:23 cv 09961) further illustrates how widespread the harm is, representing countless writers whose livelihoods depend on the integrity of copyright law. OpenAI’s refusal to respect these rights is not inadvertent—it is systemic.
Even beyond copyright, OpenAI has shown callousness toward other forms of intellectual property. In Cameo v. OpenAI (N.D. Cal., Case No. 3:25 cv 05187), the company is accused of trademark infringement for launching a “Cameo” feature in its Sora app, deliberately trading on the goodwill of an established brand.
In the present case, OpenAI, through its Sora app, has unlawfully appropriated protected innovations of Plaintiff’s sole owner, Miroslawa Bruns, a special-ed school teacher for the San Juan Capistrano School District in Orange County, California. Taken together, these cases paint a clear picture: OpenAI has pursued growth by exploiting the intellectual property of others, disregarding the rights of creators, publishers, and innovators. Such conduct is not only unlawful but corrosive to the very foundation of creative and technological progress.