"Amazon" tagged Cases and Lawsuits

CaseCase FiledLast Document
Polaris IP, LLC v. Google Inc. et alAugust 27, 2007November 6, 2009
Polaris IP, LLC sued Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Amazon.com Inc., A9.com, Inc., Borders, Inc., Borders Group Inc., AOL LLC, America Online, Inc., IAC/InteractiveCorp., and IAC Search and Media, Inc. for patent infringement involving U.S. Patent No. 6,411,947 entitled "Automatic Message Interpretation and Routing System." Plaintiff alleges that defendants are infringing on the patent by implementing various websites that comprise interpreting electronic messages with rule base and case base knowledge engines.
Clark v. The Walt Disney Company et alOctober 17, 2008October 9, 2009
Plaintiff Aaron Clark alleged that Defendants infringed on U.S. Patent No. 5,548,272 entitled "Talking Poster" by manufacturing, distributing and licensing the Hannah Montana Talking Poster and Cheetah Girls Talking Poster.
Gawronski et al v. Amazon.com Inc et alJuly 30, 2009October 7, 2009
Student sues Amazon after their decision to remove 1984 and other books from user's kindles results in kindle "eating" his homework.
Video Professor, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc.March 23, 2009March 24, 2009
Gibson Guitar Corporation v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. et alMarch 17, 2008June 18, 2008
Plaintiff Gibson Guitar Corporation alleges that Defendants Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Target Corporation, Kmart Corporation, Amazon.com Inc., GameStope Corporation and Toys-R-Us Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 5,990,405 entitled "System and Method for Generating and Controlling a Simulated Musical Concert Experience" by selling Guitar Hero series of video games.
Curran v. Amazon.Com, Inc., et alJune 1, 2007February 11, 2008
Plaintiff Erik Curran alleges that (1) defendant Amazon.com, Inc. sold a novel titled "Killer Elite" that was published by defendant St. Martin's Press, LLC and ha a photograph of plaintiff on the cover; (2) defendant Getty Images, Inc. provided the photograph of plaintiff to St. Martin's Press; (3) defendant Hot Toys, Ltd. was using plaintiff's photograph as a model for an action figure, and (4) defendant Cafepress.com Inc. sold t-shirts bearing plaintiff's photograph.
Zhang v. Boeing Company et alNovember 5, 2007January 23, 2008
Plaintiff Liaosheng Zhang alleges that Defendants Boeing Company, Amazon Global Resources, Inc. and Microsoft Corporation never hired him. Plaintiff contends that Defendants prefers to hire H1B foreign workers who are much younger and present less medical liabilities to the companies, even though Plaintiff is a qualified U.S. worker.
Blue v. Amazon.com, Inc. et alSeptember 5, 2007October 25, 2007
Plaintiff Nesya Shapiro Blue alleges that defendants Amazon.com, Inc. and IMDB Services Inc. credited her on the IMDB website as a director of two adult hard core films. Plaintiff further alleges that she lost many employment and business opportunities because prospective employers believe she has ties to the pornography industry.
SBJ Holdings 1, LLC v. Netflix, Inc. et alAugust 28, 2007September 21, 2007
Vignette Corporation, a third-party to the litigation, seeks a modification to defendant's subpoena for documents relating to Storyserver.
Perfect 10 Inc v. Amazon.com Inc et alJune 29, 2005July 25, 2007
Plaintiff Perfect 10 sued defendant Amazon.com Inc. for displaying thumbnails of photographs copyrighted by the plaintiff. Consolidated with Perfect 10 Inc. v. Google Inc. et al.
GANDOLFF v. AMAZON COM INCApril 17, 2007July 24, 2007
The Author's Guild et al v. Google IncOctober 20, 2006October 23, 2006
Amazon.com, Inc. objects to Google, Inc.'s subpoena which sought documents relating to the Amazon Book Project.
Parallel Networks, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc. et alApril 6, 2009 
YIP (Winnie) v. HALLMARK GIFT LAND et alMarch 20, 2009 
The Tobin Family Education and Health Foundation et al v Amazon.Com, Inc.March 17, 2009 
Kahari v. Amazon.com et alMarch 14, 2009 
Plaintiff Asante Kahari sued Defendants Amazon.com and eBay Inc. alleging that defendants infringed on plaintiff's copyrights by allowing the resale of previously purchased book that were authored by the plantiff.
Shifferaw v. EMSON USA et alFebruary 19, 2009 
Quito Enterprises, LLC v. Netflix, Inc. et alDecember 26, 2008 
Amazon.com, Inc.December 22, 2008 
Fidler et al v. Eberhart et alNovember 4, 2008 
Plaintiffs Jeffrey Fidler and James Fidler alleged that Defendants distributed DVDs that infringed on Plaintiffs' unpublished audiovisual works on bow hunting deers.
Davis v. Estate of Salvatore Bonanno et alOctober 22, 2008 
Saratoga Films Inc. v. Navarre Corp. et alOctober 1, 2008 
TRF Music Inc. v. Alan Ett Music Group, LLC. et alSeptember 26, 2008 
Sipco, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc. et alSeptember 19, 2008 
Plaintiff SIPCO, LLC alleged that Defendants infringed on U.S. Patent No. 6,891,838 entitled "System and Method for Monitoring and Controlling Residential Devices" and U.S. Patent No. 7,103,511 entitled "Wireless Communication Networks for Providing Remote Monitoring of Devices."
Tailgate Nation, Inc. et al v. Top Marketing USA et alJuly 11, 2008 
Rasor v. Amazon.com.KSDC, Inc.July 7, 2008 
Plaintiff sued Defendant Amazon.com KSDC, Inc. a/k/a Amazon.com KSFC, Inc. and alleged that she sustained unwelcome treatment of a sexual nature from one or more coworkers and/or members of Defendant's supervisory/managerial workforce, Defendant's management ignored her notification of such mistreatment, and Defendant terminated her.
YIP, et al V. BEARHANDS, LTD.June 10, 2008 
Benjey v. Amazon.Com, Inc. et alJune 3, 2008 
Plaintiff Thomas Ray Benjey sued Defendants Amazon.com, Inc. and On-Demand Publishing, LLC d/b/a BookSurge for copyright infringement. Plaintiff alleges that Amazon fulfilled some of its online orders for Plaintiff's book -- "Keep A-goin: The Life of Lone Star Dietz" -- by obtaining copies of the advance reading copies from BookSurge, who knew they were not authorized to print final copies.
Girafa.Com,Inc. v. Alexa Internet, Inc. et alJune 2, 2008 
BOOKLOCKER.COM INC v. AMAZON.COM INCMay 19, 2008 
Taylor v. Amazon.com, Inc. et alMarch 17, 2008 
Plaintiff Lou Maxell Taylor alleged that Defendants Amazon.com Inc. and Amazon Digital Services Inc. had offered for sale MP3 files of the Cheshire Tree Suite, a musical work authored and composed by the Plaintiff and marketed by QuiXote Music. Plaintiff asserted that he had never given permission to Defendants to sell MP3 files of the work, and that Defendants misattributed the copyright of the work to QuiXote instead of himself.
Girafa.com Inc. v. Amazon Web Services LLC et alDecember 5, 2007 
Plaintiff Girafa.com, Inc. alleges that Defendants Amazon Web Services LLC, Amazon.com, Inc., Alexa Internet, Inc., IAC Search & Media, Inc., Snap Technologies, Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Smartdevil Inc., Exalead, Inc. and Exalead S.A. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 6,864,904 entitled "Framework for Providing Visual Context to WWW Hyperlinks." The patent covers a method and system for displaying an image of a website when hovering over a hyperlink.
Vallavista Corporation v. Amazon.Com, Inc. et alOctober 19, 2007 
Plaintiff Vallavista Corporation alleges that Defendants Amazon.com, Inc., Target Corporation, eBags, INc. Emporium Leather Company, Inc., Royce Leather and Fashion Handbags, Inc. d/b/a Bo Bo Bags infringed on U.S. Trademark Registration No. 2,008,495 for TAXI WALLET®.
Instabook Corporation v. Amazon.com et alAugust 24, 2007 
Gates v. Starbucks Corporation et alJuly 9, 2007