Amazon files patent suit against Discovery: WSJUS online retail giant Amazon has filed a lawsuit lawsuit: see procedure; tort. against Discovery Communications alleging it infringed four of Amazon's e-commerce patents, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The newspaper said the suit alleges infringement of patents covering search engine and recommendation technology by an e-commerce site run by Discovery, an operator of cable-television networks based in Silver Spring, Maryland Not to be confused with Silver Springs. Silver Spring is an urbanized, unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, USA. After Baltimore and Columbia, Silver Spring is the third most populous Census Designated Place in Maryland. . It said the suit was filed last week in US District Court in Seattle. Amazon's suit comes after Discovery filed a patent infringement patent infringement n. the manufacture and/or use of an invention or improvement for which someone else owns a patent issued by the government, without obtaining permission of the owner of the patent by contract, license or waiver. lawsuit against the Seattle, Washington-based online retail company in March over its popular electronic reader, the Kindle A portable e-book device from Amazon.com that provides wireless connectivity to Amazon for e-book downloads as well as Wikipedia and search engines. Using Sprint's EV-DO cellphone network, dubbed WhisperNet, wireless access is free. It also includes a built-in dictionary. . Discovery, in the suit filed in a US District Court in Delaware, claimed Amazon violated vi·o·late tr.v. vi·o·lat·ed, vi·o·lat·ing, vi·o·lates 1. To break or disregard (a law or promise, for example). 2. To assault (a person) sexually. 3. a patent it registered in November 2007, and said the Kindle infringes Discovery's intellectual property rights. Discovery said Kindle violates its development of a digital rights management scheme -- the way Amazon protects the books it sells for the handheld product. The Journal also reported that Amazon had filed counterclaims in connection with Discovery's suit. 
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