Judge Rules That Google Must Face Trial Over Sonos Patents

Alphabet’s Google GOOGL.O received a mixed ruling on Thursday from a San Francisco federal judge in a patent lawsuit brought by Sonos Inc SONO.O over wireless audio technology, failing to invalidate all of the patents before a trial but narrowing Sonos’ claims.

The case, set for trial May 8, is part of a contentious intellectual property dispute between the former business partners over their smart speakers that includes lawsuits in the United States, Canada, France, Germany and the Netherlands.

Sonos won a limited import ban on some Google devices from the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) last year, while Google has sued Sonos for patent infringement at the ITC and in California.

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