A girl passes the emblem from the net search engine supplier Google in the course of the digital society pageant ‘re:publica’, on the Area Berlin in Berlin, Germany June 9, 2022. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse
WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (Reuters) – The U.S. Worldwide Commerce Fee stated on Friday it could probe allegations introduced by Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google towards Sonos (SONO.O) claiming the home-audio firm infringed on Google patents by importing sure audio elements.
The company didn’t say what particular merchandise had been allegedly imported in potential violation of U.S. commerce legislation. It stated it had not but made any resolution on the deserves of the case.
The brand new complaints add to an ongoing patent battle between the previous companions over audio and smart-speaker know-how, together with lawsuits in California, Canada, France, Germany and the Netherlands.
Sonos gained an import ban on some Google gadgets from the commerce fee in January. Final month, Google filed lawsuits in federal courtroom in California saying Sonos’ new voice-assistant know-how violates a number of Google patents. Sonos has known as these lawsuits an “intimidation tactic.”
The commerce fee stated it could set a date for finishing its inquiry into Google’s newest allegations inside 45 days, and would schedule an evidentiary listening to.
Reporting by Chris Gallagher and Rami Ayyub; Modifying by Leslie Adler and Jonathan Oatis
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