{"id":72736,"date":"2026-05-19T08:40:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/elon-musk-loses-openai-trial-vows-appeal-after-jury-dismisses-claims-over-statute-of-limitations\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T08:40:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:40:41","slug":"elon-musk-loses-openai-trial-vows-appeal-after-jury-dismisses-claims-over-statute-of-limitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/elon-musk-loses-openai-trial-vows-appeal-after-jury-dismisses-claims-over-statute-of-limitations\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Loses OpenAI Trial, Vows Appeal After Jury Dismisses Claims Over Statute of Limitations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News )<\/b><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"@container mb-[25px] rounded-sm overflow-clip py-0.5 pr-0.5 pl-2.5 bg-success-100\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-m overflow-clip rounded-[6px] !bg-success-10 p-3 @[420px]:p-m\">\n<h2 class=\"m-0 flex items-center gap-s text-[19px] !text-[#1c1c1c] md:text-[20px]\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"16\" height=\"10\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 10\" fill=\"none\" class=\"shrink-0 text-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M1 1.5h14\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><path d=\"M1 8.5h10\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><\/svg><span>Key Takeaways<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"m-0 flex list-none flex-col gap-m pl-0\">\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">A federal jury dismissed Musk\u2019s lawsuit against OpenAI on May 18, citing a statute of limitations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">Musk called the verdict a \u201ccalendar technicality\u201d and plans to appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">OpenAI, valued at around $730 billion pre-funding, is targeting a public market debut by end of 2026.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Verdict Reached, But Battle Not Over<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">A federal jury in Oakland, California <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/18\/musk-altman-openai-trial-verdict.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">sided with OpenAI<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> on May 18, unanimously dismissing all claims in Elon Musk\u2019s lawsuit against Sam Altman and the company he co-founded. The jury found that Musk\u2019s claims were filed outside the three-year statute of limitations as district court judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers immediately adopted the advisory jury\u2019s verdict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The lawsuit, first filed in 2024, centered on Musk\u2019s allegation that Altman had broken a foundational promise to keep OpenAI structured as a nonprofit dedicated to the public benefit. The court did not rule on whether that promise existed or was violated and the timing issue rendered the substantive claims legally moot before any evidence on the merits was weighed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Writing on X shortly after the verdict, Musk called the outcome a \u201ccalendar technicality\u201d and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/18\/musk-altman-openai-trial-verdict.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">confirmed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> he would take the matter to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. His legal team formally reserved the right to appeal in open court.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_815266\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-815266\" style=\"width:733px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-815266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image source: X<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Judge Gonzalez Rogers <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/05\/18\/nx-s1-5822366\/musk-altman-openai-jury-verdict-claims-dismissed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">expressed open skepticism<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> in response, indicating she was prepared to dismiss any such appeal given the weight of evidence behind the jury\u2019s finding.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight:400\">A Two-Year Legal Feud<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The verdict is just a single chapter within a broader conflict between Musk and OpenAI that has played out across courtrooms as well as social media because shortly after Musk filed his original suit, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/openai-counter-sues-elon-musk-accusing-him-of-spreading-misinformation\/\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">OpenAI counter-sued him<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, accusing Musk of waging a bad-faith legal campaign as a competitive weapon. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Musk founded xAI in 2023, whose Grok model competes directly with OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, creating a clear financial incentive behind the litigation that OpenAI\u2019s lawyers leaned on throughout the trial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The backdrop to the verdict is a company that has continued scaling regardless of the courtroom drama. OpenAI is <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/report-openai-nears-10b-funding-boost-at-730b-valuation\/\">approaching<\/a> a $730 billion pre-funding valuation and has targeted a public market debut before the end of 2026. The company <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/openai-vs-robinhood-tokenized-stocks-spark-debate-over-equity-exposure\/\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">made headlines<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> last year (alongside Robinhood) when its name surfaced in a debate over tokenized stocks and equity exposure, a sign of how deeply its footprint now extends beyond pure AI into financial markets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Musk\u2019s X platform remains one of the most active venues for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitcoin.com\/get-started\/a-quick-introduction-to-crypto\/\" class=\"lar_link lar_link_outgoing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crypto<\/a> discourse, and xAI has been actively exploring integrations spanning AI and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitcoin.com\/get-started\/what-is-a-dApp\/\" class=\"lar_link lar_link_outgoing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decentralized applications<\/a>. In all of this, w<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">hether the Ninth Circuit takes up the case remains to be seen because if it declines, the door on Musk\u2019s nonprofit-breach argument closes permanently (at least through the U.S. federal court system).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/elon-musk-openai-lawsuit-dismissed-appeal-2026\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News ) Key Takeaways A federal jury dismissed Musk\u2019s lawsuit against OpenAI on May 18, citing a statute of limitations. Musk called the verdict a \u201ccalendar technicality\u201d and plans to appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court. OpenAI, valued at around $730 billion pre-funding, is targeting a public market debut by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3947362404,"featured_media":72737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3947362404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}