Google faces $1.67 bln damages demand at AI-related patent trial
Google is facing a $1.67 bln damages demand for infringing patents
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Google is facing a $1.67 bln damages demand for infringing patents
The patent suit, filed by Cambridge-based Singular Computing in 2019, claims that Google violated Singular’s patents related to a type of microprocessor used to run AI systems.
Alphabet's Google went before a federal jury in Boston on Tuesday to argue against a computer scientist's claims that it should pay his company $1.67 billion for infringing patents that allegedly cover the processors used to power artificial intelligence technology in Google products. A lawyer for Singular Computing, founded by Massachusetts-based computer scientist Joseph Bates, told jurors that Google copied Bates' technology after repeatedly meeting with him to discuss his ideas to solve a problem central to developing AI, Reuters said.
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