Amazon.com, Inc. v. Personal Web Technologies, LLC

I. BACKGROUND

14 In this MDL, PersonalWeb alleges patent infringement by Amazon.com, Inc. and Amazon 15 Web Services, Inc., and separately by dozens of Amazon’s customers (collectively, “Amazon”), 16 related to the customers’ use of Amazon’s CloudFront and Simple Storage Service (“S3”) in 17 connection with downloading files from S3. Two of the cases comprising this MDL are proceeding 18 at this time: Amazon v. PersonalWeb (Case No. 5:18-cv-00767-BLF), in which PersonalWeb asserts 19 counterclaims of patent infringement, and PersonalWeb v. Twitch Interactive, Inc. (Case No. 5:18- 20 cv-05619-BLF), in which PersonalWeb asserts claims of patent infringement and which the Court 21 has designated as a representative customer case. In each of these two actions, PersonalWeb alleges 22 infringement of four patents: U.S. Patent Nos. 6,928,442 (“the ’442 patent”); 7,802,310 (“the ’310 23 patent”); 7,945,544 (“the ’544 patent”); and 8,099,420 (“the ’420 patent”). 24 PersonalWeb filed its opening claim construction brief on April 8, 2019. ECF 399. The 25 next day, the Court issued an order instructing the parties to limit the briefing to no more than ten 26 disputed terms, pursuant to…