Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Sonos Inc. again drew a federal judge’s ire in a closely watched California case over smart-speaker technologies, as he labeled their competing bids to shed parts of expert reports “emblematic of the worst of patent litigation.”
“On these motions alone,” Judge William Alsup wrote in an opinion issued Wednesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, “counsel submitted 135 pages of briefing, 1,130 pages of unsealed exhibits, and 3,756 pages of conditionally sealed exhibits and accoutrements—all to strike, in the end, fewer than five paragraphs from two expert reports.”
“Alas, much ink ...
