Zeppelin’s Counsel Files Attestation Against Unchecked Lawyering by Generative AI

Zeppelin Corporation has refiled its suit against ZTE (4:23-cv-00454) in the Northern District of Texas, again targeting the provision of smartphones that include the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chipset, an AMOLED display, Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax), and 5G cellular connectivity. The plaintiff also voluntarily dismissed without prejudice its April 2023 case against ZTE, filed in the Eastern District of Texas; in North Texas, the refiled suit joins a Huawei case already in progress before District Judge Brantley Starr, who recently posted a “Mandatory Certification Regarding Generative Artificial Intelligence” requiring litigants in his courtroom to attest that “no portion of any filing will be drafted by generative artificial intelligence [AI] . . . or that any language drafted by generative [AI] will be checked for accuracy, using print reporters or traditional legal databases, by a human being” because, in part, “[t]hese platforms in their current states are prone to hallucinations and bias”. Such certifications would presumably prevent the presentation of “bogus quotes” and the citation of “non-existent cases”, as recently made headlines in the Southern District of New York.