August 02, 2021
Western District of Texas Judge Alan Albright on Monday denied Google's motion to transfer a patent suit by speaker manufacturer Sonos Inc. to California, rejecting the Silicon Valley firm's contention that contracts between the companies require any disputes to be heard in the Golden State.
November 20, 2020
U.S. District Judge William Alsup assailed Google on Friday for filing what he described as a "ramshackle complaint" aimed at keeping a speaker patent dispute with Sonos out of a Texas court, and said the war between the companies is "emblematic of the worst aspects of patent litigation."
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."
September 29, 2020
Sonos on Tuesday hit Google with a second patent infringement suit in its ongoing battle with the tech giant over smart speaker technology, this time accusing Google of ripping off its inventions for music streaming and managing different rooms of speakers in a home.