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Thank CTOnews.com netizens soft media Xinyou 1933769 for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, October 10 / PRNewswire-Asianet /-- A patent dispute broke out between Google and Sonos a few days ago, mainly over "controlling the volume of a group of smart speakers at the same time." Sonos claimed to own a patent for this function, which led to an update released by Google a few days ago, banning functions related to Google Home smart speakers.

▲ Google Google Home Audio reported that Google began selling products that can "adjust a set of sound volume at the same time" in 2015, while Sonos applied for a patent for the feature in 2019, but Sonos artificially adjusted the retroactive period of its own patent function by linking a 2019 patent to a 2006 application.

While the judges held that this "should not count", CTOnews.com found that a judge named William Alsup believed that Sonos was trying to link its patent for "multi-room audio technology" to a 2006 application, claiming that its invention predates Google's device.

This is not a case of an inventor leading an industry to new things, but a case of an industry leading new things, while an inventor pops up when the industry is moving towards new things, saying that he came up with the idea first.

A federal judge in California has dismissed a patent dispute over Sonos, and Google is expected to bring similar features back to its series of Google Home smart stereos in the near future, Reuters reported today.

▲ Tuyuan Reuters

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