Chris Welch
Google and Sonos will square off in a federal trial starting Monday.
The long-running patent dispute between Sonos and Google is headed to the courtroom on Monday. The whole-home audio brand is insistent that Google copied its smart speaker technology. Sonos has already picked up a win at the ITC, but next week the federal trial kicks off.
US District Judge William Alsup is openly frustrated that these two companies have been unable to work something out and just settle already.
“By the end, our parties’ legal bills will likely have been able to build dozens of schools, pay all the teachers, and provide hot lunches to the children,” he wrote in a previous filing.
