Amazon.com\u2019s Amazon Web Services, the world\u2019s largest cloud-service provider, owes tech company Kove $525 million for violating its patent rights in data-storage technology, an Illinois federal jury said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The jury determined that AWS infringed three Kove patents covering technology that Kove said had become \u201cessential\u201d to the ability of Amazon\u2019s cloud-computing arm to \u201cstore and retrieve massive amounts of data.\u201d<\/p>\n
An Amazon spokesperson said the company disagrees with the verdict and intends to appeal.<\/p>\n
Kove\u2019s lead attorney Courtland Reichman called the verdict \u201ca testament to the power of innovation and the importance of protecting IP (intellectual property) rights for start-up companies against tech giants.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chicago-based Kove sued Amazon in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in 2018. The company said in the lawsuit that it pioneered technology enabling high-performance cloud storage \u201cyears before the advent of the cloud.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kove alleged that AWS\u2019 Amazon S3 storage service, DynamoDB database service and other products infringed the cloud-storage patents. The jury agreed with Kove on Wednesday that AWS infringed all three Kove patents at issue, though it rejected Kove\u2019s contention that AWS violated its rights willfully.<\/p>\n
AWS had denied the allegations and argued that the patents were invalid.<\/p>\n
Kove also sued Google last year for infringing the same patents in a separate Illinois lawsuit that is still ongoing.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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