Sept 19 (Reuters) – Amazon (AMZN.O) on Tuesday satisfied a Delaware federal jury that options of its Amazon Music and Kindle e-reader apps for “seeking” particular components of tune lyrics and audiobooks didn’t infringe a Virginia inventor’s patent.

The jury said after a five-day trial that Amazon’s expertise didn’t infringe a patent masking a “remote control for multimedia seeking” owned by inventor Curt Evans’ TrackTime.

The jury additionally decided that the patent was invalid.

Representatives for TrackTime didn’t instantly reply to requests for touch upon the decision. An Amazon spokesperson declined to remark.

TrackTime sued Amazon in 2018 for infringing two of Evans’ patents associated to synchronizing textual content to audio. U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika invalidated one of many patents in 2021.

TrackTime informed the jury that Amazon Music’s X-Ray Lyrics function and Kindle’s Audible Immersion Reading, which permits a consumer to learn an e-book and take heed to its audiobook model on the identical time, infringed the remaining patent.

A TrackTime knowledgeable estimated that Amazon owed a most of $60.7 million in damages for the alleged infringement, in line with courtroom filings.

The case is TrackTime LLC v. Amazon.com Services LLC, U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, No. 1:18-cv-01518.

For TrackTime: Robert Greenspoon and William Flachsbart of Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig

For Amazon: David Hadden, Saina Shamilov, Ravi Ranganath, Todd Gregorian and Melanie Mayer of Fenwick & West

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