Patent lawsuit: Amazon should pay over half a billion dollars

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Amazon is expected to pay over half a billion dollars

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. photo

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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.

Amazon is in one Patent lawsuit over data storage technologies ordered to pay more than half a billion dollars. Jurors in Chicago concluded on Wednesday that the company violated three patents of the US company Kove in the service of its cloud division AWS. They awarded Kove $525 million (around €489 million). Amazon wants to appeal, said a spokesman. Since the patents have now expired, there will be no changes to AWS services, the company emphasized.

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.

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