Google has been ordered to pay Sonos $32.5 million after a jury verdict found that Google’s smart speakers and media players infringed on one of Sonos’ patents. The Verge reports: The legal battle started in 2020 when Sonos accused Google of copying it…

Alphabet’s Google received a mixed ruling on Thursday from a San Francisco federal judge in a patent lawsuit brought by Sonos over wireless audio technology, failing to invalidate all of the patents before a trial but narrowing Sonos’ claims. Reuters r…

In the land of patent litigation, all patent trolls want to file in the US Western District of Texas Court. This court is infamous for being sympathetic to patent plaintiffs. That’s why patent litigator WSOU Investments, aka Brazos Licensing and Develo…

A new Apple patent application describes a way to transform an iMessage to a voice note. In this way, the recipient can choose to have your message read to them not in Siri’s voice, but in yours. 9to5Mac reports: In other words, when you send an iMessa…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Mac: Apple has suffered a setback in its long-running Apple Watch patent infringement battle with medical technology company Masimo. A court has ruled that Apple has indeed infringed one of Masimo’s patents …