Google infringes on five Sonos patents and will have to modify its speaker software in order to market them

The International Trade Commission (ITC) of the United States has determined this Thursday that Google It has sold and imported to sell audio equipment and components, thereby infringing five patent claims filed by Sonos.

This resolution ends an investigation carried out by the Commission, following the complaint filed by Sonos, which accused Google of using without permission some of its innovations in sound systems, such as smart speakers or laptop computers.

Google has a period of 60 days – those granted by the presidential term that the text cites – to make the necessary software changes previously approved that allow it to get rid of the blockade of its manufactured outside the United States and imported for sale in the American country. -to prevent your products from being detained in customs-.

Google ensures that this order will not have an impact on its computers, as Bloomberg has collected, although it can circumvent this situation by resolving the lawsuit with the payment of royalties corresponding to Sonos.

The litigation between the two companies began in January 2020, when Sonos filed a lawsuit in the United States against Google for infringement of its patents, at the same time that it urged the ITC to suspend, on a precautionary basis, imports of Google smart speakers. .

Sonos assured then that Google was made improperly with its technology after, in 2013, they signed a collaboration agreement so that Google Play Music could work in the speakers of the American manufacturer.

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