Amazon Gets Canadian NPE’s Patent Suit Transferred to New Jersey

A federal judge in Virginia transferred a patent suit against two Amazon.com Inc. subsidiaries to New Jersey partly because the plaintiff was a newly minted non-practicing entity—a company formed to bring patent suits and negotiate settlement deals rather than making products based on the patented technology.

Judge Roderick C. Young of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia dismissed Audio Pod IP LLC’s case against Amazon in March and transferred the remaining claims aimed at its Amazon Web Services Inc. and Amazon Services units to the US District Court for the District of New Jersey, where Audio ...