Hugging Face, Inc. vs. FriendliAI Inc.

Explore the PTAB proceeding IPR2024-01234 filed by Hugging Face, Inc. on 2024-07-28. This includes filing dates, application numbers, tech centers, patent numbers, and current case status.

Proceeding Overview

Proceeding Number

IPR2024-01234

Filing Date

2024-07-28

Accorded Filing Date

2024-07-28

Institution Decision Date

—

Last Modified Date

2025-03-31

Proceeding Type

IPR

Termination Date

2025-01-23

Trial Status

Terminated-Settled

Parties & Counsel

Petitioner

Hugging Face, Inc.

Represented By

Murphy, Jameset al

Patent Owner / Respondent

FriendliAI Inc.

Represented By

Bush, Jenniferet al

Tribunal & Venue

Tribunal

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (USPTO)

Technology Center

TC 2100 - Computer Architecture & Software

Patent Information

1 Patent Involved

Respondent Application Number 17542193

Respondent Patent Number 11442775

External Links

Espacenet

Google Patents

Respondent Inventor Gyeongin Yu et al

Respondent Tech Center TC 2100 - Computer Architecture & Software

Address and Attorney/Agent Information

52 Registered Practitioners

Power of Attorney & Correspondence

Firm / Entity Name FENWICK & WEST LLP

Customer Number 758

Address 801 CALIFORNIA STREET, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, 94041, UNITED STATES

Attorney / Agent Information

Reg #	Name	Phone
33426	Stuart Meyer	650-335-7286
34838	David Hayes	415-875-2411
38376	Daniel Becker	650-988-8500
39327	Rajiv Patel	650-335-7607
39713	Brian Hoffman	415-875-2484
40629	J Hadden	650-988-8500
41015	Michael Farn	650-335-7823
46581	Daniel Brownstone	212-430-2662
48473	Robert Hulse	415-875-2444
50784	Jennifer Bush	650-335-7213
52297	James Trainor Jr	212-430-2600
54670	Antonia Sequeira	650-335-7185
57415	Carl Morales	212-813-8824
57417	Andrea Nichols	650-988-8500
59070	Jae Song	650-335-7164
63165	Rajendra Panwar	650-335-7107
64714	Glenn Foulds	650-335-7184
65328	Carlo Miguel Ocampo	650-335-7820
67613	Pooja Varshneya	202-434-7322
68243	Christopher Larson	415-875-2300
68617	Cara Mosley	404-572-2733
68680	Fredrick Tsang	650-335-7982
68842	Eric Zhou	650-335-7116
70223	Saad Hassan	650-335-7182
70670	Malashaan Kind	650-335-7686
71605	F. Bailey	650-988-8500
71802	Filip Vanevski	202-320-4161
72353	Scott Baker	561-653-5000
72388	Anthony Jacobson	650-335-7158
73059	Danqiong Sun	650-988-8500
73537	Predrag Radosavljevic	650-335-7712
74250	Kelly Ndubuka	646-481-9047
74850	Stefan Ochiana	317-719-6228
74876	Lynne Wang	650-335-6167
75444	Xiao Lin	650-335-4916
75677	Michael Saffron	650-335-7959
75690	Johnathan Chai	650-335-7804
77371	Kyle Reuther	650-335-7874
77424	Payal Sud	650-833-7725
77732	Jwalant Dholakia	212-430-2714
77962	Akshay Avantsa	650-335-7644
78040	Matthew Lem	650-335-7636
78258	Jae Yeon Baek	650-335-7142
78270	Bailey Meyer	650-838-4779
78318	Hayan Yoon	650-988-8500
78698	Christopher Corbet	650-335-7112
79223	Hanchel Cheng	650-335-4927
80142	Jason Zhang	917-951-0588
80203	Brennan Murphy	202-970-3180
80352	Samantha Mcinally	541-207-5603
83162	Javier Fajardo Jr	650-335-4922
L1365	Hye In Lee	650-335-7863

Proceeding Documents

Notice: refund approved NOTICE

2025-03-31 FILING PARTY: BOARD

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IPR2023-01234 - Petitioner Refund Request OTHER

2025-03-07 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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Termination Decision: Pre-DI settlement TERMINATE

2025-01-23 FILING PARTY: BOARD

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2008

Exhibit 2008 (From Turing to Transformers: A Comprehensive Review and Tutorial on the Evolution and Applications of Generative Transformer Models) Exhibit

2024-11-15 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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Patent Owner's Preliminary Response POPR

2024-11-15 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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Hugging Face, Inc. vs. FriendliAI Inc.

Proceeding Overview

Parties & Counsel

Petitioner

Hugging Face, Inc.

Represented By

Patent Owner / Respondent

FriendliAI Inc.

Represented By

Tribunal & Venue

Patent Information

Address and Attorney/Agent Information

Power of Attorney & Correspondence

Attorney / Agent Information

Proceeding Documents

Notice: refund approved NOTICE

IPR2023-01234 - Petitioner Refund Request OTHER

Termination Decision: Pre-DI settlement TERMINATE

Exhibit 2008 (From Turing to Transformers: A Comprehensive Review and Tutorial on the Evolution and Applications of Generative Transformer Models) Exhibit

Patent Owner's Preliminary Response POPR

Exhibit 2016 (cosFormer: Rethinking Softmax in Attention, Qin ) Exhibit

Exhibit 2009 (Serial order: A parallel distributed processing approach, Michael I. Jordan) Exhibit

Exhibit 2004 (Sequences of Unequal Length, Chapter 7, Introduction to Deep Learning, Sandro Skansi) Exhibit

Exhibit 2012 (Revised Joint Claim Construction Chart (Dkt. 109), FriendliAI Inc. v. Hugging Face, Inc., Case No. 1:23-CV-00816-MN) Exhibit

Exhibit 2006 (An Introduction to Transformers, Richard E. Turner) Exhibit

Exhibit 2017 (Long Short-Term Memory, Sepp Hochreiter; Jurgen Schmidhuber) Exhibit

Exhibit 2005 (Learning to (Learn at Test Time): RNNs with Expressive Hidden States, Yu Sun) Exhibit

Exhibit 2018 (Anonymous, Recurrent Linear Transformers, ICLR 2024) Exhibit

Exhibit 2013 (Joint Claim Construction Brief (Public Version) (Dkt. 125), FriendliAI Inc. v. Hugging Face, Inc., Case No. 1:23-CV-00816-MN) Exhibit

Exhibit 2001 (Expert Declaration of Michael Pazzani) Exhibit

Exhibit 2003 (E-BATCH: Energy-Efficient and High-Throughput RNN Batching, Franyell Silfa) Exhibit

Exhibit 2019 (RNNs are not Transformers (Yet): The Key Bottleneck on In-context Retrieval, Kaiyue Wen) Exhibit

Exhibit 2007 (FastSeq: Make Sequence Generation Faster, Yu Yan) Exhibit

Exhibit 2014 (Stipulation and Order Amending Case Schedule (Dkt. 86), FriendliAI Inc. v. Hugging Face, Inc.,) Exhibit

Exhibit 2002 (A Critical Review of Recurrent Neural Networks for Sequence Learning, Zachary C. Lipton) Exhibit

Exhibit 2011 (Finding structure in time, Jeffrey L. Elman) Exhibit

Exhibit 2015 (What does it mean by Transformers are RNNs, Sandesh Ghimir) Exhibit

ORDER Granting Patent Owner’s Motion for Pro Hac Vice Admission of Michael J. Sacksteder 37 C.F.R. § 42.10 ORDER

Declaration of Michael J. Sacksteder in Support of Patent Owner's Motion for Pro Hac Vice Admission Pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 42.10(c) Exhibit

Patent Owner's Motion for Pro Hac Vice Admission of Michael J. Sacksteder Pursuant to 37 C.F. § 42.10(c)R. MOTION

Notice: Notice filing date accorded NOTICE

Patent Owner's Mandatory Notices Pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 42.8 NOTICE

Patent Owner's Power of Attorney NOTICE

Ex1004 - Gao Exhibit

Ex1012 - Defendant's Proposed Claim Constructions Exhibit

Ex1014 - Sutskever Exhibit

Ex1011 - Plaintiff's Proposed Claim Constructions Exhibit

Ex1016 - Paulus Exhibit

Ex1018 - Radford Exhibit

Ex1013 - Plaintiff's Final Infringement Cont. Exhibit

Notice : Power of Attorney NOTICE

Ex1017 - Liu Exhibit

Ex1022 - Claim Appendix Exhibit

Ex1021 - Blanc Exhibit

Ex1020 - Rawat Exhibit

Ex1015 - Bahdanau Exhibit

Ex1005 - Katharopoulos Exhibit

Ex1009 - Vaswani Exhibit

Ex1010 - File History 17/542,193 Exhibit

Ex1007 - Plaintiff's First Amended Complaint Exhibit

Ex1003 - G. Hammouri, Ph.D. CV Exhibit

Ex1001 - US 11,442,775 Exhibit

Ex1019 - Tsai Exhibit

Ex1002 - Expert Declaration Exhibit

Petition : as filed PETITION

Ex1006 - Plaintiff's Complaint Exhibit

Ex1008 - Orca Paper Exhibit