Aug 18, 2026
On August 18, The Capitol Forum hosted a conference call with Christie Thoene, a policy, legal, and communications consultant at CTG Advisory, and Kirti Gupta, Vice President and Chief Economist of Global Technology at Cornerstone Research, to discuss recent developments in intellectual property and trade secret litigation in the technology sector.
The discussion covered streaming patent wars, the impact of non-compete agreements, the rise in trade secret litigation, including Apple’s recent lawsuit against OpenAI, and what these developments could mean for the future of the technology sector.
