Swarm Technology LLC v. Amazon.com Incorporated et al

  1. June 21, 2023

    'Swarm' Patent Gets Junked At PTAB After All

    Amazon has succeeded in persuading a panel of Patent Trial and Appeal Board judges to wipe out a patent issued to an Arizona man who claimed to have invented a new way to apply "swarm" intelligence to processing microchips, a few years after the patent led a federal judge to remark that "every idea is not eligible for a patent, even if it is a good one."

  2. September 21, 2021

    Amazon Beats Inventor's Internet Of Things Patent Suit

    An Arizona federal judge has ruled against an inventor claiming that Amazon's "internet of things" interface infringed his patents on how to apply swarm intelligence to microchip processing, finding that the patents cover nothing more than abstract ideas.