A AI unicorn that has made its way with cutting-edge models, for the first time found itself as a defendant in a patent lawsuit. According to Reuters, Anthropic has been involved in a patent infringement lawsuit for the first time - the non-profit organization Tennessee Research Foundation, which holds intellectual property licenses from the University of Tennessee, formally filed a lawsuit against Anthropic in the U.S. District Court in Delaware on Monday local time, accusing it of patent infringement.

This lawsuit targets Anthropic's system products. The Tennessee Research Foundation claims that the company's products infringe on two patents invented by professors at the university. These two patents cover significant contributions to the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, neuromorphic computing, and neuroscience-inspired computing. In the allegations, the foundation also added a weighty statement: Anthropic's disregard for others' intellectual property during product development goes beyond the previous issue of using copyrighted materials - this statement effectively brings the previous controversy over the copyright of training data into the case as well.

In response to the allegations, an Anthropic spokesperson gave only a brief response: "We disagree with these allegations and will fully defend our rights." A simple "disagree" has quietly opened the序幕 of this patent battle, but it also suggests that this will not be the last time Anthropic faces new types of legal confrontations.