Amazon and its subsidiary, Audible, are the newest defendants in Smartflash LLC’s sole litigation campaign. The suit against the defendants asserts a group of seven patents related to online media storage and access (7,334,720, 7,942,317, 8,033,458, 8,061,598, 8,118,221, 8,336,772, 8,794,516). Smartflash’s owner, Patrick Racz, is the inventor of the patents-in-suit. Amazon’s services that allow purchase and download of online media, including Audible, the Appstore, Instant Video, and Music, are all accused of infringing the patents-in-suit.
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