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 (TSH)
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR
v. LEAVE TO AMEND INVALIDITY
CONTENTIONS
SONOS, INC., Re: Dkt. No. 109 Defendant.
12 I. INTRODUCTION Defendant Sonos, Inc., seeks leave under Patent Local Rule 3-6 to amend its invalidity contentions to respond to Google LLC’s amended infringement contentions. ECF No. 109. Sonos contends amendment is necessary to add additional detail to its previously disclosed theory that U.S. Patent No. 10,229,586 is invalid in light of its own invention of the subject matter of that patent before the patent’s priority date. Google filed a response indicating it takes no position on whether Sonos can, at this juncture of the case, demonstrate good cause to amend its invalidity contentions, and seeking to clarify certain statements in Sonos’s motion. ECF No. 117. The Court finds this matter suitable for disposition…