Patent process
Amazon is expected to pay over half a billion dollars
Amazon’s cloud division is said to have violated three patents from another company. Now, according to a ruling, the company will have to pay a lot of money for it.
In patent litigation in the United States, amounts of several hundred million dollars are often initially awarded, which are later often reduced in appeal proceedings. Tech heavyweights like Apple, Google and Amazon are repeatedly targeted by smaller companies that want to monetize their patents. Kove argued that the technologies the company invented “years before the advent of the cloud” are important for storing and retrieving large amounts of data on AWS.