Google, Inc. Settles Patent Infringement Litigation with Singular Computing
On January 24, 2024, it was announced that the legal team of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, had settled with the Massachusetts company Singular Computing in a patent infringement case involving Artificial Intelligence technology. The intellectual property litigation was resolved mere minutes prior to closing arguments following several weeks of trial.
The IP Litigation resulted from Singular’s accusation that its founder had attempted to sell a computing architecture meant to supercharge AI capabilities to Google. The startup claimed that Google then erroneously used its technology in computer chips. Google’s legal counsel denied wrongdoing on behalf of the tech giant, asserting that the patents were improperly granted, and that the technology used in their chips was different.
As part of the ongoing dispute, Singular requested an inter partes review, which is conducted by the Patent Board to review patentability as it pertains to claims, on the basis of prior art consisting of patents or printed publications (under §§ 102 or 103). Google then put forth evidence of its five-year, $143 million dollar development process that included 25 engineers, which the company says led to the innovation of the chips that power its Artificial Intelligence Applications.
Despite Google’s continued assertion that it did not violate Singular’s patent claims and that the technology central to its AI was independently developed, both Singular and Google presented a jointly filed term sheet to the U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts. This may not end the conflict between the two parties entirely, as Google filed an appeal to the Patent Board’s decision in connection with the scrutinized Patents (U.S. Patent Nos. 8,407,273 and 9,218,156).
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