Google LLC v. Sonos, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SONOS, INC., Plaintiff, No. C 20-06754 WHA No. C 21-07559 WHA v.

GOOGLE LLC, (Consolidated)

Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION RE

SONOS’S DAMAGES THEORY

16 INTRODUCTION This memorandum opinion explains an oral ruling that struck a major part of plaintiff’s damages theory before jury deliberations began. Sonos, Inc. sued Google LLC for patent infringement. Google sued Sonos for a declaratory judgment. The related actions were consolidated for trial, which concluded two weeks ago. The final pretrial order had deferred ruling on two of Google’s motions in limine, cautioning that there were “serious questions about Sonos’s damages theory and associated opinion,” but allowing Sonos to put on the contested evidence “with the understanding that the undersigned may strike it from the record, tell the jury to disregard it, and grant one of these motions in limine under Rule…