There's a reason they're avoiding the giants. They can knock out the little guys who can't mount much of a defense, and then use it as a precedent to go after

There's a reason they're avoiding the giants. They can knock out the little guys who can't mount much of a defense, and then use it as a precedent to go after bigger fish who can give them hard cold cash. Amazon would pony up the big guns lawyers and squash these bugs - tiny startup types will roll over and die because they can't weather it. Of course, I can't imagine demonstrating prior art on a "Method and apparatus for creation and maintenance of database structure." is going to be very difficult if the patent as awarded in 2005.