Despite Basis Technology’s success in the Massachusetts Superior Court and Appeals Court, Amazon.com has filed yet another appeal, this time requesting that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) grant Amazon permission to pursue yet another round of appellate review. Both the Superior and Appeals Court ruled in Basis’ favor in connection with a dispute between the companies over the establishment of Amazon’s Japan subsidiary and its Japanese e-commerce site, known as Amazon.co.jp.
The SJC typically rejects such appeals unless it is shown that the case is “founded upon substantial reasons affecting the public interest or the interests of justice.” In spite of this high legal standard, Amazon chose to appeal from the well-reasoned decision of the Appeals Court, thus further prolonging the party’s long-standing dispute.
“We are confident the SJC will recognize Amazon’s true motivations and uphold the earlier rulings in our favor” said Carl Hoffman, CEO of Basis Technology.
About Basis Technology
Basis Technology (www.basistech.com) provides software solutions for text analytics, information retrieval, and name resolution in many languages. The company’s Rosette® Linguistics Platform is a widely adopted suite of interoperable components that delivers high performance results to search, business intelligence, e-discovery, and many other enterprise applications.
Top-tier software vendors, content providers, multinational enterprises, and government agencies rely on Basis Technology’s solutions for Unicode compliance, language identification, multilingual search, normalization, name matching and translation, and entity extraction. Customers include industry leaders Autonomy, Convera, Endeca, FAST, Google, LL Bean, Microsoft, Oracle, SAS, Symantec, and Yahoo! Government contractors include BBN Technologies, CACI, Lockheed Martin, MITRE, Northrop Grumman and SAIC.