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Illinois Jury Returns Infringement Verdict for Kove IO in Cloud Storage Suit Against Amazon
Patent Litigation Feature
Inventor-controlled Kove IO, Inc. has won an infringement verdict in its litigation against Amazon. On April 10, an Illinois jury found that the company had infringed three distributed network storage patents through its Simple Storage System (S3) and DynamoDB products and awarded $525M in damages, though it also determined that this infringement had not been willful. Litigation leading up to that trial dealt in part with the impact of certain ex parte reexaminations (EPRs) against the asserted patents, after the district judge found that the patent owner had disclaimed certain subject matter through statements made in those proceedings.
April 13, 2024
Having Filed a New Case Against Google Last Week, Kove to Talk Trial Dates This Week, in Restarted Amazon Web Services Suit
New Patent Litigation
A status hearing is set for this week before Northern District of Illinois Judge Matthew F. Kennelly in the case that Kove IO, Inc. filed against Amazon (Amazon Web Services) back in December 2018. A stay in light of certain ex parte reexams (EPRs), filed by Amazon, was lifted last fall, since which time that docket has experienced a furious pelting largely with discovery disputes, most of them under at least partial seal, but also with briefs for and against a motion for supplemental claim construction in light of what happened in those EPRs. Meanwhile, this past week, Kove IO filed a second Northern District of Illinois case, this one accusing Alphabet (Google) (1:23-cv-04244) of infringing the same three data storage and retrieval patents, which have now survived a set of Alice challenges, one petition for inter partes review (IPR), and multiple EPRs—although, as Amazon has just apprised the court, the USPTO is just now responding to a second round of such requests.
July 2, 2023