Google's lawyer, Robert Van Nest, argues that the employees who designed Google's chips never met Bates and designed them independently. He also described Bates as a "disappointed inventor" whose technology used approximate math that can generate "incorrect" calculations. Google had previously said that Singular had requested up to $7 billion in damages for infringing its two patents. A separate case is also being heard in a U.S. appeals court about whether to invalidate Singular's patents.
Key takeaways:
- Google is facing a lawsuit from Singular Computing, which claims that Google should pay $1.67 billion for infringing patents that allegedly cover the processors used in Google's artificial intelligence technology.
- Singular Computing's founder, Joseph Bates, alleges that Google copied his technology after he shared his computer-processing innovations with the company between 2010 and 2014.
- Google's lawyer, Robert Van Nest, countered that the employees who designed Google's chips never met Bates and designed them independently. He also described Bates as a "disappointed inventor" whose technology can generate "incorrect" calculations.
- A U.S. appeals court in Washington is also hearing arguments about whether to invalidate Singular's patents in a separate case that Google appealed from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.