February 18, 2026
Amazon has told a Seattle federal judge that California attorney Kathy Q. Hao relied on artificial intelligence-hallucinated case law in her effort to escape its lawsuit accusing her of participating in a fraudulent trademark scheme, urging the court to weigh sanctions against the lawyer over what the e-commerce and technology giant called "fabricated citations."
October 16, 2025
Amazon is suing a California lawyer and four Chinese companies, among others, over an alleged scheme to fraudulently register thousands of trademarks with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and then wrongfully report infringement by other Amazon sellers.