Through its Patent Evaluation Express program, Amazon provides patent owners with an injunction-like remedy by permanently removing a competitor's products, a form of relief that is difficult to obtai...

Amazon operates a program called the Amazon Patent Evaluation Express, which functions as a private, expedited "pseudo-court" for resolving patent infringement claims against sellers on its platform.

In Amazon's Patent Evaluation Express program, accused sellers have only three weeks to respond and are not permitted to argue that the accuser's patents are invalid.

Amazon has stated that it will respect a conflicting decision from a federal court or the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office if it contradicts a ruling from its internal patent program.

While other retailers like Walmart and eBay have intellectual property complaint systems, they do not operate a quasi-judicial system like Amazon's that uses outside attorneys as evaluators.

One seller whose products were delisted through Amazon's patent program reported losing over $70,000 per day in revenue.

Decisions in Amazon's Patent Evaluation Express are typically issued within weeks, whereas patent infringement cases in federal court usually take years to resolve.

Amazon's Patent Evaluation Express uses external attorneys, selected and assigned by Amazon, to act as neutral evaluators or judges in patent disputes.

Amazon's Patent Evaluation Express program operates secretly, with no public dockets, confidential proceedings, and non-public decisions.