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Tech giant Google is headed to court after being accused of infringing on intellectual property rights while developing artificial intelligence.
Singular Computing, a Massachusetts-based computer science company, claims that Google exploited its computer processing architecture to improve its AI technology.
The company is seeking up to $7 billion in damages from Google. The trial is expected to last up to three weeks.
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Google's headquarters are in Mountain View, California. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Singular Computing founder Joseph Bates claims to have shown his own computing developments to Google in 2010 and 2014.
He says his technology is currently being used to improve Google's suite of services.
Bates claims that the AI-powered parts of Gmail, web search, Google Translate, and other products use processes covered by his patents.
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Google has denied allegations of intellectual property theft and said its engineers told Mr. Bates that his technology was not suitable for its software.
Google said in a court filing that “Google engineers had mixed feelings about the technology, but ultimately the company rejected it and said Dr. Bates' idea was developed by Google. “We have clearly communicated that it is not suitable for this type of application.”
The Singular Computing lawsuit is just the latest in a series of recent legal troubles for the tech giant.
A person in Lafayette, California, with an iPhone using a Google Bard-generated AI language model with prompted input fields. (The Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images/Getty Images)
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Last month, Google settled a lawsuit alleging that the search engine giant was secretly tracking users' internet usage, even though it believed millions of users were browsing in incognito mode. Agreed.
The lawsuit, filed in 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, seeks $5 billion and targets “millions” of Google users, with $5,000 per user, or 3% of actual damages. It sought damages in the amount of the greater of the two times.
Terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but lawyers said they had agreed to the terms through mediation. Lawyers also plan to present a formal agreement to the court for approval by February 24, 2024.
