October 02, 2024
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.
May 23, 2024
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.
January 04, 2024
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.
February 21, 2023
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.
November 19, 2020
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."
November 03, 2020
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.
October 15, 2020
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.
June 11, 2020
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.