Google, Sonos Smart-Speaker Patent Fight Rests on Jury’s Hands

Sonos Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google rested their multimillion-dollar battle over royalties for patented smart-speaker technologies with a federal jury in San Francisco Friday.

The high-stakes litigation between the companies, an offshoot of their partnership to integrate Google Play Music into Sonos products, has stretched over eight jurisdictions and the US International Trade Commission. Sonos in 2020 sued Google alleging the Silicon Valley tech giant incorporated what it had learned about the technology into its own Home and Chromecast systems without permission.

During closing arguments Friday, after 10 days of trial in the US District Court for the Northern ...