Sonos accused Google of infringing on a complete of 100 patents.
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A courtroom within the US has ordered Google to pay $32.5 million to high-tech audio know-how firm Sonos, for infringing on the corporate’s good speaker patent.
A courtroom within the US has ordered Google to pay $32.5 million to high-tech audio know-how firm Sonos, for infringing on the corporate’s good speaker patent.
The verdict by a San Francisco jury discovered that Google’s good audio system and media gamers infringed on certainly one of two Sonos patents, experiences The Verge, citing the courtroom submitting.
Jurors stated that Google ought to pay $2.30 for every of the greater than 14 million units bought.
In a ruling in January final yr, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) stated that Google violated 5 patents of high-tech speaker and audio know-how firm Sonos, referring to good audio system.
A US decide had dominated in August final yr that Google infringed upon the Sonos patents.
In January 2020, Sonos first sued tech large Google for allegedly copying its wi-fi speaker design, urging the ITC to ban Google merchandise like laptops, telephones and audio system.
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence testified earlier than the US House antitrust committee that Google “blocked the corporate from enabling each Amazon’s Alexa assistant and the Google Assistant from being lively on the similar time”.
Google had said “we do not expect any impact to our ability to import or sell our products”. Sonos accused Google of infringing on a complete of 100 patents.
Google has at all times maintained that its know-how was developed independently and it was not copied from Sonos.
The tech large additionally sued Sonos, alleging that the corporate infringed on its patents round good audio system and voice management know-how.
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