Google LLC v. Sonos, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 GOOGLE LLC, Case No. 20-cv-03845-EMC
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S
v. MOTION TO DISMISS SECOND
CAUSE OF ACTION
SONOS, INC., Docket No. 39 Defendant.
12 13 Plaintiff Google LLC has filed a patent infringement suit against Defendant Sonos, Inc. The case involves five different patents but the pending motion to dismiss filed by Sonos implicates one patent only – i.e., the ‘489 patent. Sonos moves to dismiss the cause of action asserting infringement of the ‘489 patent on the ground that the invention at issue is patent ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101. According to Sonos, the ‘489 patent is unpatentable because it simply claims an abstract idea as the invention. I. FACTUAL & PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND The ‘489 patent is titled “Generating Media Content Availability Notification.” The invention “relates generally to determining if media content is available from different content…