The copyright turmoil has not yet dissipated, but the patent stick has fallen again: Anthropic was put on the dock for patent infringement for the first time. An AI unicorn that relied on cutting-edge models became a defendant for the first time on the patent battlefield.

The copyright turmoil has not yet dissipated, but the patent stick has fallen again: Anthropic was put on the dock for patent infringement for the first time. An AI unicorn that relies on cutting-edge models has become a defendant on the patent battlefield for the first time. According to Reuters, Anthropic was involved in a patent infringement lawsuit for the first time. The University of Tennessee Research Foundation, a non-profit organization that licensed the intellectual property of the University of Tennessee, formally sued Anthropic for patent infringement in the Delaware federal court on Monday local time. This lawsuit points the finger at Anthropic system products. The University of Tennessee Research Foundation claimed that the company's products infringed on two patents invented by professors at the school, and these two patents cover major contributions to the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, neuromorphic computing, and neuroscience heuristic computing. The foundation also included a very important sentence in the accusation: Anthropic’s indifference to the intellectual property rights of others during the product development process does not stop at the previous use of copyrighted materials. This statement is equivalent to involving the previous controversy surrounding the copyright of training data. In the face of the accusations, Anthropic’s spokesperson only gave a brief response: he disagreed with the accusations and would fully defend his rights. A word of "disagree" gently kicked off the patent tug-of-war, but it also indicated that this would not be the last time Anthropic faced a new type of confrontation on the legal battlefield. via AI News (author: AI Base)