By Blake Brittain
(Reuters) -Amazon.com’s Amazon (NASDAQ:) Internet Providers, the world’s largest cloud-service supplier, owes tech firm Kove $525 million for violating its patent rights in data-storage know-how, an Illinois federal jury stated on Wednesday.
The jury decided that AWS infringed three Kove patents protecting know-how that Kove stated had turn out to be “important” to the power of Amazon’s cloud-computing arm to “retailer and retrieve huge quantities of information.”
An Amazon spokesperson stated the corporate disagrees with the decision and intends to attraction.
Kove’s lead legal professional Courtland Reichman known as the decision “a testomony to the ability of innovation and the significance of defending IP (mental property) rights for start-up firms in opposition to tech giants.”
Chicago-based Kove sued Amazon within the U.S. District Court docket for the Northern District of Illinois in 2018. The corporate stated within the lawsuit that it pioneered know-how enabling high-performance cloud storage “years earlier than the arrival of the cloud.”
Kove alleged that AWS’ Amazon S3 storage service, DynamoDB database service and different merchandise infringed the cloud-storage patents. The jury agreed with Kove on Wednesday that AWS infringed all three Kove patents at difficulty, although it rejected Kove’s competition that AWS violated its rights willfully.
AWS had denied the allegations and argued that the patents had been invalid.
Kove additionally sued Google (NASDAQ:) final yr for infringing the identical patents in a separate Illinois lawsuit that’s nonetheless ongoing.