AWS told to pay $525M in cloud storage patent suit – The Register
“It is notable that none of the Kove patents in the case were actually granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office before the launch of Amazon S3, the first AWS service, on March 14, 2006. However, Kove states in its complaint that applications relating to these patents were filed on July 8, 1998, perhaps implying that Amazon should have been aware of the filings before the launch of its cloud platform.” Crappy software patenting strikes again.
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