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Intellectual Property,
Civil Litigation

Oct. 8, 2020

With scathing remarks, judge tosses patent suit against Amazon

Amazon and Dropbox were accused in 2011 of infringing on PersonalWeb's data processing system patents. It related to Amazon's Simple Storage Service, a key component of the company's web hosting infrastructure business

A federal judge in San Jose concluded sprawling patent infringement litigation by PersonalWeb Technologies against Amazon and dozens of its customers, finding the claims at issue were baseless from the start since they were clearly barred by dismissal of an identical case the company brought years ago in federal court Texas.

"PersonalWeb's claims related to the use of Amazon S3 were objectively baseless under the well-established pr...

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