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Singular Computing Trial Ends Before Closing Arguments
In Case You Missed It
Last Wednesday, shortly before closing arguments were to begin in the first suit filed by inventor-controlled Singular Computing LLC against Alphabet (Google), the parties submitted a Joint Motion to Stay Pending Settlement Agreement. District of Massachusetts Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV granted the motion, staying the case for 30 days. Eleven days of trial had passed at that point, the jury, its membership having whittled down from twelve to nine, about to receive the case, has been dismissed.
January 26, 2024
A Partial Stay in Place in Its First Suit Against Google, Singular Computing Files a Second
New Patent Litigation
Singular Computing LLC has filed a second case against Alphabet (Google) (1:19-cv-12551), asserting the two most recent patents to issue in the same family from which the three patents already in suit are drawn. The inventor-controlled NPE again targets the use of certain Google Tensor Processing Units (application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) used for AI acceleration). The accused TPUs—specifically, the TPU v2, v3, and v4—are allegedly used to “deliver services such as Translate, Photos, Search, Assistant, Cloud and Gmail”. Singular Computing’s first suit against Google, filed in December 2020, also in the District of Massachusetts, is under a partial stay until May 2022.
December 24, 2021
Recent Patent in Hand, Singular Computing Sues Google over Backend Mathematical Processing
New Patent Litigation
Inventor-controlled Singular Computing LLC has filed suit against Alphabet (Google) (1:19-cv-12551) in the District of Massachusetts over three patents broadly directed to a device for “processing with compact arithmetic” operations that allegedly make more efficient use of transistors. The plaintiff targets Google over the provision of hardware for accelerating artificial intelligence applications (its Cloud Tensor Processing Unit ASIC systems), targeting its alleged used of deep learning models to improve computational efficiency; this hardware purportedly powers “at least Google Translate, Photos, Search, Assistant, and Gmail”.
January 1, 2020