Sonos, Inc. v. Google LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SONOS, INC., Plaintiff, No. C 21-07559 WHA

v.

GOOGLE LLC, ORDER RE MOTION TO DISMISS

AND CERTIFICATION UNDER

Defendant. U.S.C. § 1292(b)

15 16 INTRODUCTION In this patent infringement action, alleged infringer moves to dismiss patent owner’s enhanced damages and indirect infringement claims. To the following extent, the motion is GRANTED. STATEMENT This action is yet another pitched battle in the world-wide war between alleged infringer Google LLC and patent owner Sonos, Inc. regarding speaker technology. With our parties already embroiled in litigation in this district, the ITC, Canada, France, Germany, and Holland, Sonos’s counsel sent Google an email alerting that Sonos would be filing an eighty-seven-page patent infringement complaint the next day against the search giant, this time in the District Court for the Western District of Texas, Waco…