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AI.Law sues competitor Eve Legal for alleged patent infringement
Legal technology company AI.Law has accused competitor Eve Legal of infringing a patent that covers the use of artificial intelligence for transforming unstructured materials into formatted legal documents. (Photo by Sakorn Sukkasemsakorn/Getty Images)
Legal technology company AI.Law has accused competitor Eve Legal of infringing a patent that covers the use of artificial intelligence for transforming unstructured materials into formatted legal documents.
In its complaint, which was filed in the Northern District of California on Wednesday, AI.Law alleges that Butler Labs, which does business as Eve Legal, operates an AI legal tech platform that delivers documents, including multipage complaints, discovery responses and medical chronologies, with methods claimed in its patent.
AI.Law noted that it received U.S. Patent No. 12,461,932, titled “Method and System for Transforming Data Using Artificial Intelligence to Generate Content,” in November.
AI.Law notified Eve Legal of the patent and its infringement in May and June, but Eve Legal did not respond and continued to infringe the patent, the complaint said.
“Defendant has infringed and continues to infringe the ’932 patent either literally or under the doctrine of equivalents through the use, sale and/or offer for sale of the Eve Legal accused system,” the complaint said.
The complaint added that Eve Legal’s platform “comprises a system and/or is used to perform a method for transforming data using artificial intelligence to generate content, among other features, that practice the claims of the ‘932 patent and/or for inducing and/or contributing to the infringement by its customers and/or users.”
Law360, which has coverage of the lawsuit, did not receive responses to its request for comment from either party.
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