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 scalable cloud systems.
“The ability to offer cloud services on this scope and scale was made possible through infringement of Kove’s patents, paving the way for AWS to become what is believed to be Amazon’s largest profit center,” the complaint said.
The lawsuit pointed to a pair of infringing AWS products: Amazon Simple Storage Service, which allows scalable internet data storage, and DynamoDB, a managed database service.
Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, and MZF Law Firm PLLC represent Kove. Fisch Sigler LLP represents Amazon.
The case is Kove IO Inc. v. Amazon Web Services Inc., N.D. Ill., No. 1:18-cv-08175, 4/10/24.
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