Google has successfully convinced a California federal judge that it did not infringe on Sonos' multi-room audio patents.
Asthat slapped the tech giant with a $32.5 million fine for infringing on patents held by Sonos related to managing groups of speakers.
The judge explained that Sonos' patents for the lawsuit "ostensibly descended from 2006 provisional application." However, the company apparently didn't file the applications for the patents in question until 2019, and it didn't roll out the technology to its own products until 2020. That's years after Google, in 2014, presented Sonos with a plan to use multi-room audio technology while exploring a collaboration.
Since Sonos connected its patents to a 2006 provisional application, they appeared to have predated Google's products. But Judge Alsup said that the early application failed to disclose the actual invention, and that in 2019, Sonos amended the specification of its patent application to insert new matter. "This was not a case of an inventor leading the industry to something new," Alsup wrote in his decision.
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