Amazon

Amazon.com, Inc., commonly known as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and Arlington County, Virginia. Founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994, in Bellevue, Washington, the company initially began as an online bookstore. Amazon is a publicly traded company listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol AMZN. As of late 2025, it employed approximately 1.58 million people and reported revenues of around $716.9 billion. Its market capitalization was approximately $2.89 trillion as of May 2026.

Amazon operates a diversified business model encompassing e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. Its major product lines and service offerings include a vast online marketplace for retail goods, Amazon Web Services (AWS) providing cloud infrastructure, and a suite of digital entertainment through Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Music, and Twitch. The company also develops and sells consumer electronics such as Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV devices, and Echo smart speakers, along with various smart home devices like Ring and Blink. Additionally, Amazon provides online advertising services, logistics, and operates physical retail stores like Whole Foods Market.

In terms of patent litigation posture, Amazon is primarily an operating company that defends against infringement suits. This is reflected in its tracked case data, showing zero cases as a plaintiff and one case as a defendant. The company's involvement as a defendant typically indicates it is being accused of patent infringement by other entities.

The single tracked case, Nokia v. Amazon, occurred in the United States International Trade Commission (USITC or ITC). This notable case involved Nokia asserting standard-essential patents (SEPs) related to video compression technology against Amazon's streaming services and devices. An ITC Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) found that Amazon infringed four of Nokia's patents and recommended an exclusion order to halt the import of infringing Amazon products into the U.S. This global patent dispute, which also included parallel litigation in Germany, was resolved in March 2025 through a licensing agreement between Nokia and Amazon covering the use of Nokia's video technologies.