"Amazon" tagged Cases and Lawsuits

CaseCase FiledLast Document
Polaris IP, LLC v. Google Inc. et alAugust 27, 2007May 16, 2008
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.
Gibson Guitar Corporation v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. et alMarch 17, 2008April 22, 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.
Kahari v. Amazon.com et alMarch 24, 2008 
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®.
Gates v. Starbucks Corporation et alJuly 9, 2007