New Delhi: A court docket 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 one in every of two Sonos patents, stories The Verge, citing the court docket submitting.
Jurors mentioned that Google ought to pay $2.30 for every of the greater than 14 million gadgets bought.
In January final 12 months, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) dominated that Google violated 5 patents of the high-tech speaker and audio know-how firm Sonos, regarding good audio system.
A US choose dominated in August final 12 months that Google infringed upon the Sonos patents.
In January 2020, Sonos first sued tech big 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 company from enabling both Amazon’s Alexa assistant and the Google Assistant from being active at the same time”.
Google had mentioned, “we do not expect any impact on our ability to import or sell our products”. Sonos accused Google of infringing on a complete of 100 patents.
Google has all the time maintained that its know-how was developed independently and it was not copied from Sonos. The tech big additionally sued Sonos, alleging that the corporate infringed on its good audio system and voice management know-how patents.
