Amazon owes US$525 million in cloud-storage patent fight, US jury says

Amazon.com’s Amazon Net Services and products, the sphere’s greatest cloud-provider supplier, owes tech company Kove US$525 million for violating its patent rights in recordsdata-storage know-how, an Illinois federal jury said on Wednesday (Apr 10).

The jury decided that AWS infringed three Kove patents keeping know-how that Kove said had became “very distinguished” to the ability of Amazon’s cloud-computing arm to “store and retrieve huge quantities of info”.

An Amazon spokesperson said the corporate disagrees with the choice and intends to allure.

Kove’s lead attorney Courtland Reichman known as the choice “a testament to the strength of innovation and the importance of keeping IP (intellectual property) rights for initiate-up companies against tech giants”.

Chicago-based entirely mostly Kove sued Amazon within the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in 2018. The company said within the lawsuit that it pioneered know-how enabling high-efficiency cloud storage “years prior to the arrival of the cloud”.

Kove alleged that AWS’ Amazon S3 storage provider, DynamoDB database provider and diverse products infringed the cloud-storage patents. The jury agreed with Kove on Wednesday that AWS infringed all three Kove patents at put, though it rejected Kove’s competition that AWS violated its rights willfully.

AWS had denied the allegations and argued that the patents had been invalid.

Kove additionally sued Google final twelve months for infringing the identical patents in a separate Illinois lawsuit that’s unexcited ongoing.