Summary
FriendliAI Inc. sued Hugging Face Inc., alleging infringement of its patent on dynamic batching for AI inference systems used in Hugging Face's Text Generation Inference server.[2][3] The case proceeded under patent infringement law in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, filed July 28, 2023, with a discovery dispute in 2024 where FriendliAI's motion to compel was denied as premature.[1][4] The parties settled via confidential agreement on January 8, 2025, leading to dismissal with prejudice while the court retained jurisdiction.[3]
Case details
- Court
- D. Del.
- Docket number
- 1:23-cv-00816
- Filed
- Jul 28, 2023
- Status
- Active
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