SDL Sues Lilt For Patent Infringement Slator

SDL is suing Silicon Valley startup Lilt, alleging patent infringement. In a lawsuit dated April 3, 2017 and filed in the Northern District of California, SDL said Lilt had violated three of its patents and "continues to interfere" with the marketing and sales of SDL products, threatening SDL's relationships with its customers. The patents referred to in the lawsuit are US patents granted Language Weaver, which SDL had acquired in the summer of 2010. Language Weaver was co-founded in 2002 by Daniel Marcu, who eventually joined SDL as Chief Technology Officer post-acquisition. Marcu went on to become the company's Chief Science Officer before moving to Amazon in December 2016 as Director of Machine Translation and Natural Language Processing.