Amazon.com Inc. must pay $525 million to software firm Kove IO Inc. for infringing three patents covering distributed cloud storage technology, an Illinois federal jury found Wednesday.
The final judgment said the infringement was not willful, and dismissed Amazon’s counterclaims asserting non-infringement, invalidity, and unpatentability. The three patents cover breakthrough technology that efficiently identifies the multiple servers that store a particular data file in the cloud, Kove said.
The 2018 lawsuit from Chicago-based Kove in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said Amazon Web Service cloud data storage products are built on Kove’s patented technology for ...
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