Google LLC v. Sonos, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

GOOGLE LLC, Plaintiff, No. C 20-06754 WHA

v.

ORDER ENTERING SUMMARY

SONOS, INC., JUDGMENT IN FAVOR OF SONOS AS TO VALIDITY OF THE '885 Defendant. PATENT

15 A July 2022 order granted Sonos’s motion for summary judgment of infringement of claim 1 of United States Patent No. 10,848,885 (Dkt. No. 309). That order also rejected Google’s arguments — made in both its opposition brief and its own patent showdown motion papers — that the claim was invalid. Specifically, that order rejected Google’s arguments that claim 1 of the ’885 patent covered unpatentable subject-matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and that the claim lacked written description support under 35 U.S.C. § 112. In light of that order, Google was ordered to show cause as to why summary judgment should not be entered in favor of Sonos on the issue of validity (Dkt. No. 339). Both parties have now responded (Dkt. Nos. 349, 351). In its response,…