Sonos Gains After Winning U.S. Import Ban on Some Google Devices
- Speaker maker won ruling that phones, laptops infringe patents
- Google says it’s implemented software fix to avoid import ban
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Sonos Inc. rose in late trading after it won a U.S. trade agency ruling that will limit the imports of some phones, laptops and speakers made overseas by Alphabet Inc.’s Google, though Google says the order will have no impact.
The U.S. International Trade Commission issued the ban Thursday after affirming a judge’s findings that the devices were using Sonos’s patented inventions for home-audio systems without permission. The Biden administration can veto the exclusion order on public policy grounds, though that rarely happens.