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AWS fined $525 million after US court rules Amazon S3 storage, DynamoDB services infringed patents
AWS violated Kove ownership rights in cloud storage technology, jurors found, and now it’ll be forced to pay millions in reparations
The firm alleged that AWS benefited from Kove’s original innovations, allowing the hyperscaler to dominate in the cloud space by using its data storage designs as the foundations on which to build. Jurors concluded that AWS was guilty of infringing on US patent law through the operation of its cloud services, with the court finding that three separate violations of Kove’s ownership rights had taken place. By contrast, Kove's lead attorney Courtland Reichman called the verdict "a testament to the power of innovation and the importance of protecting IP (intellectual property) rights for start-up companies against tech giants," according to Reuters.
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