Amazon Web Services (AWS) owes $30.5 million in damages to Acceleration Bay LLC over two patent infringements, rules Delaware federal court.
The cloud giant's CloudFront content delivery system and Virtual Private Cloud virtual network were found by the jury to infringe Acceleration Bay's patents on September 27, reports Reuters.
The jury further noted that Amazon infringed the network-communications patents "willingly" which could see the Judge triple AWS' payout.
Acceleration Bay first sued Amazon in 2022 over the patents that had been obtained by Boeing, to which Amazon argued that its technology worked differently and that it had a license to the patent from Boeing.
The patents, according to the lawsuit's memorandum opinion, "disclose networking technologies that promote reliable, efficient broadcast of data through large networks."
Specifically, the 966 patent discloses "systems for providing an information delivery service using a regular network" while the 147 patent discloses "methods and systems for leaving a broadcast channel."
According to the verdict form, of the $30.5 million, $29.5 million is based on the CloudFront patent infringement.
DCD has reached out to AWS for comment.
Acceleration Bay won a separate patent trial in May 2024, in which video game studio Activision Blizzard was told to Pay $23.4 million, as some of its popular games infringed on Acceleration Bay patents, one of which is the same patent that AWS has been found to infringe.
Earlier this year, AWS was told to pay $525 million in damages after losing a cloud storage patent infringement case raised by Kove in 2018. The lawsuit alleged that products offered by the tech giant, including Amazon’s S3 storage and its DynamoDB database service, infringed on three of its patents relating to systems and methods for managing the storage, search, and retrieval of data. The jury resolved that the infringement was not, in that case, willful.
The cloud giant has also been in a back and forth with Nokia, having sued the company for allegedly infringing a dozen AWS cloud computing patents in July 2024. This lawsuit came less than a year after Nokia launched its own patent infringement case against Amazon regarding its video-related technologies in its streaming services and devices.
Acceleration Bay is an incubator and investor company that partners with inventors, corporations, and entrepreneurs. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Fransisco.
