Judge Throws Out $32.5 Million Verdict for Sonos in Patent Case Against Google

A California federal judge has thrown out a $32.5 million verdict for wireless-audio company Sonos against rival Google after finding that the Sonos patents at the heart of the case were unenforceable. U.S. District Judge William Alsup said that Sonos had improperly tried to connect its patents for multi-room audio technology to a 2006 application to claim that its inventions predated Google's devices.

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