Google LLC v. Sonos, Inc.

  1. October 02, 2024

    Sonos Beats Remaining Claims Of Google Speaker IP Suit

    A California federal judge on Wednesday dropped the remaining patent infringement claims in Google's wireless technology battle against speaker maker Sonos Inc., rejecting the tech giant's contention that there was substantial evidence of infringement.

  2. May 23, 2024

    Sonos Gets Fed. Circ. To Affirm Axed Google Patent Claims

    Google failed on Thursday to persuade Federal Circuit judges to breathe new life into patent claims the tech giant has asserted in its legal fight with the Sonos speaker brand.

  3. January 04, 2024

    Sonos Seeks To Scrap Remains Of Google Speaker IP Suit

    Sonos Inc. urged a California federal judge on Thursday to toss the last remaining patent in Google's infringement suit against the speaker maker, the latest battle in an extensive legal war over wireless audio technology.

  4. February 21, 2023

    'Hope Springs Eternal' For Google-Sonos IP Deal, Judge Says

    A California federal judge on Tuesday set an October hearing date for Sonos' planned summary judgment motion on the last remaining patent in Google's long-running suit against the speaker maker, quipping that "hope springs eternal" for a mediated settlement ahead of the hearing.

  5. November 19, 2020

    Sonos, Google Trade Forum Shopper Barbs In Speaker IP War

    Sonos and Google exchanged allegations of forum-shopping before a California federal judge Thursday, with Sonos arguing that Google's "bare bones" patent suit over speaker technology belonged alongside Sonos' own complaint in Texas, while Google accused Sonos' lawyers of "talking out of both sides of their mouth."

  6. November 03, 2020

    Sonos Gets Google Patent Scrapped Under Alice In IP Fight

    A California federal judge on Monday trimmed Google's patent infringement lawsuit against Sonos Inc., agreeing with the speaker maker that one of Google's notification patents describes an abstract idea and therefore can't pass muster under the U.S. Supreme Court's 2014 Alice ruling.

  7. October 15, 2020

    Sonos Judge Skeptical Google Patent Passes Alice Muster

    A California federal judge sounded open to granting Sonos Inc.'s bid to invalidate one of Google's notification patents asserted against the speaker maker, saying on Thursday that the patent's technology seems only to speed up an existing process, which is unpatentable under the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice ruling.

  8. June 11, 2020

    Google Hits Sonos With Countersuit Over Speaker Patents

    Five months after speaker maker Sonos accused Google of illegally using its wireless audio technology in its devices, Google has fired back, hitting Sonos with a countersuit on Thursday claiming that Sonos is the one infringing the tech giant's intellectual property.

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