Amazon hit with $525 million jury verdict in patent case brought by Chicago tech firm

Amazon Web Services must pay $525 million to Chicago-based tech company Kove for infringing upon three of the company’s patents, a federal jury decided Wednesday. The patent case, which was heard in federal court in Chicago, centered around data-storage patents held by West Loop-based Kove. The technology in question enables the search of “vast quantities of data in a very efficient way” to “find exactly what you’re looking for,” said Renato Mariotti, an attorney for Kove. The jury found Amazon Web Services had infringed upon Kove’s patents, though it did...