University of Tennessee sues Anthropic over neural network patents

The University of Tennessee Research Foundation sued Anthropic on Monday in the US District Court for the District of Delaware, accusing the artificial intelligence company of building its models on patented neural network methods it never licensed.

The complaint, unsealed on Tuesday, is thought to be the first patent infringement case brought against Anthropic, and it arrives days after a California judge approved the company’s $1.5bn book piracy settlement with a class of authors.

The foundation, which manages patents for the Knoxville campus, cast the case as part of a wider habit. Anthropic’s “cavalier approach to others’ intellectual property rights in the development of its products extends beyond the use of copyrighted material,” it said in the filing.

The framing deliberately ties the patent claim to the copyright dispute that produced that settlement, and to a growing docket of complaints against the company, among them a lawsuit over usage limits...

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