Google Sued by Sonos for Allegedly Stealing Its Wireless Speaker Tech

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Sued by Sonos for Allegedly Stealing Its Wireless Speaker Tech

Audio company Sonos has sued tech giant

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for allegedly copying its wireless speaker design, urging the International Trade Commission (ITC) to ban

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products like laptops, phones and speakers.

According to a

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in The New York Times, Sonos has filed two lawsuits covering five patents against

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, claiming that “

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stole its multi-room speaker technology after getting access to it through a 2013 partnership”.

The partnership let Sonos speakers support

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Play Music.

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, however, allegedly used patented technology in its now-discontinued Chromecast Audio device but used it in the

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Home lineup of smart speakers and the Pixel phones, according to the lawsuit.

In a

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to The Verge, the tech giant said: “

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’s technology was developed independently by

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– it was not copied from Sonos. We dispute these claims and will defend them vigorously”.

Sonos, the maker of high-end wireless speakers, also claimed that

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“subsidised its own products to sell them at a cheaper price while using them to extract more data from buyers”.

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is an important partner with whom we have collaborated successfully for years, including bringing the

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Assistant to the Sonos platform last year. However,

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has been blatantly and knowingly copying our patented technology in creating its audio products,” Sonos CEO Patrick Spence was quoted as saying.

Sonos also claimed that

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too violated its patents with the Echo device family, but has decided to make its case “one by one”.

According to Sonos, starting in 2016 shortly after the first

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Home launched, Sonos began warning

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about patent infringement but to no avail.

Sonos said it accused

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of infringing on a total of 100 patents.

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sonos sues

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for allegedly stealing wireless speaker tech sonos,

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