Sonos Urges Fed. Cir. Not to Rein in Trade Agency After Chevron

Speaker maker Sonos Inc. urged the Federal Circuit not to scale back the US International Trade Commission’s patent jurisdiction after the US Supreme Court tossed its decade-old Chevron doctrine under which courts deferred to agencies to define the breadth of their own legal authority in cases where Congress left things unclear.

Sonos argued that the high court’s June 28 decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo doesn’t give the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit carte blanche to wipe out any and all prior rulings relying on Chevron. Sonos’ push comes in response to Google LLC’s bid to ...