Google Can’t ‘Readjust Sails’ on Infringed Sonos Patent Validity

Alphabet Inc.’s Google won’t be allowed “to recalibrate its arguments” challenging the validity of a Sonos Inc. audio-tech patent that a California judge in July ruled infringed by “Cast-enabled apps” including Google Home, Google Play Music, and YouTube Music, the judge said.

Google LLC “made the strategic choice to raise invalidity in its summary judgment papers, which then forced Sonos to address it for the first time in a fifteen-page reply brief,” Judge William Alsup wrote in an order issued Tuesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. He granted a summary judgment upholding the Sonos ...