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In October 2013, Mobile Telecommunications Technologies, LLC filed a complaint against Amazon.com, Inc. for patent
infringement in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The complaint alleges, among other things,
that our network operation centers and our mobile devices, such as Kindle Fire models based on the Android operating system
that provide XMPP-compliant messaging services and applications, infringe U.S. Patent No. 5,809,428, entitled “Method And
Device For Processing Undelivered Data Messages In A Two-Way Wireless Communications System.” The complaint also
alleges that Amazon’s mobile devices infringe U.S. Patent No. 5,754,946, entitled “Nationwide Communication System,” and
that Amazon.com, Inc. infringes U.S. Patent No. 5,786,748, entitled “Method And Apparatus For Giving Notification Of
Express Mail Delivery,” by providing tracking and notification services to customers who purchase products directly from
Amazon.com, Inc. The complaint seeks an unspecified amount of damages, enhanced damages, attorneys’ fees, costs, interest,
and injunctive relief. We dispute the allegations of wrongdoing and intend to defend ourselves vigorously in this matter.
In October 2013, Tuxis Technologies, LLC filed a complaint against Amazon.com, Inc. for patent infringement in the
United States District Court for District of Delaware. The complaint alleges, among other things, that “the Amazon.com
website” with “recommendation features” infringes U.S. Patent No. 6,055,513, entitled “Methods And Apparatus For
Intelligent Selection Of Goods And Services In Telephonic And Electronic Commerce.” The complaint seeks an unspecified
amount of damages, attorneys’ fees, costs, and interest. We dispute the allegations of wrongdoing and intend to defend
ourselves vigorously in this matter.
In November 2013, Memory Integrity, LLC filed a complaint against Amazon.com, Inc. for patent infringement in the
United States District Court for the District of Delaware. The complaint alleges, among other things, that certain Kindle devices
infringe U.S. Patent No. 7,296,121, entitled “Reducing Probe Traffic In Multiprocessor Systems.” The complaint seeks an
unspecified amount of damages, costs, expenses, and interest. We dispute the allegations of wrongdoing and intend to defend
ourselves vigorously in this matter.
In November 2013, Vantage Point Technology, Inc. filed a complaint against Amazon.com, Inc. for patent infringement in
the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The complaint alleges, among other things, that Kindle
devices with a Cortex A-9 core processor and OMAP 4430 chipset, Kindle device HD tablets with a Cortex A-9 core processor
and OMAP 4470 chipset, and Kindle devices with a Cortex A-8 core processor and Freescale MX50 family chipset infringe
U.S. Patent No. 5,463,750, entitled “Method And Apparatus For Translating Virtual Addresses In A Data Processing System
Having Multiple Instruction Pipelines And Separate TLB’s For Each Pipeline.” The complaint seeks an unspecified amount of
damages, enhanced damages, costs, and interest. We dispute the allegations of wrongdoing and intend to defend ourselves
vigorously in this matter.
In December 2013, Appistry, Inc. filed a complaint against Amazon.com, Inc. and Amazon Web Services, Inc. for patent
infringement in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The complaint alleges, among other things,
that Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud infringes U.S. Patent Nos. 8,200,746, entitled “System And Method For Territory-Based
Processing Of Information,” and 8,341,209, entitled “System And Method For Processing Information Via Networked
Computers Including Request Handlers, Process Handlers, And Task Handlers.” The complaint seeks injunctive relief, an
unspecified amount of monetary damages, trebled damages, costs, and interest. We dispute the allegations of wrongdoing and
intend to defend ourselves vigorously in this matter.
In December 2013, Delaware Display Group LLC and Innovative Display Technologies LLC filed a complaint against
Amazon.com, Inc. for patent infringement in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. The complaint
alleges, among other things, that Amazon’s tablets with liquid crystal displays infringe U.S. Patent Nos.: 6,755,547, 7,300,194,
7,384,177, 7,404,660, 7,434,974, 7,357,370, and 8,215,816, all entitled “Light Emitting Panel Assemblies.” The complaint also
alleges that tablets with liquid crystal displays infringe U.S. Patent No. 7,914,196, entitled “Light Redirecting Film Systems
Having Pattern Of Variable Optical Elements.” The complaint seeks injunctive relief, an unspecified amount of monetary
damages, costs, interest, and attorneys’ fees. We dispute the allegations of wrongdoing and intend to defend ourselves
vigorously in this matter.
In December 2013, ContentGuard Holdings, Inc. filed a complaint against Amazon.com, Inc. for patent infringement in
the United States District Court for Eastern District of Texas. The complaint alleges, among other things, that certain digital
rights management software used by various Kindle Fire software applications, including the Kindle Reader and Amazon
Instant Video, infringe seven U.S. Patents: Nos. 6,963,859, entitled “Content Rendering Repository”; 7,523,072, entitled
“System For Controlling The Distribution And Use Of Digital Works”; 7,269,576, entitled “Content Rendering Apparatus”;
8,370,956, entitled “System And Method For Rendering Digital Content In Accordance With Usage Rights Information”;
8,393,007, entitled “System And Method For Distributing Digital Content In Accordance With Usage Rights Information”;
7,225,160, entitled “Digital Works Having Usage Rights And Method For Creating The Same”; and 8,583,556, entitled
“Method For Providing A Digital Asset For Distribution.” The complaint seeks an unspecified amount of damages, an
injunction, enhanced damages, attorneys’ fees, costs, and interest. We dispute the allegations of wrongdoing and intend to
defend ourselves vigorously in this matter.