Amazon owes $525M in cloud-storage patent fight, US jury says

Seems like they are patent trolling to me. Hope Amazon wins the appeal. Nightmare for their corporate counsel to have to walk a jury through this and just hope for the best

Kove owns three data storage patents that it alleges AWS has infringed: U.S. Patent No. 7,103,640 (the '640 Patent), entitled "Network Distributed Tracking Wire Transfer Protocol"; U.S. Patent No. 7,814,170 (the '170 Patent), entitled "Network Distributed Tracking Wire Transfer Protocol"; and U.S. Patent No. 7,233,978 (the '978 Patent), entitled "Method and Apparatus for Managing Location Information in a Network Separate From the Data to Which the Location Information Pertains."

lol this is an insane ruling, there’s no way this will actually happen.

prior art basically.

I looked up the first of the patents. Here's its PDF:

https://ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/7...

I'm not a patent lawyer, just a programmer, but reading just the abstract, this seems to be covering a DNS system that can be configured via an API, which I guess does cover S3, but also, like, almost every other domain-related thing?