‘It is wrong that our system was used to punish an innovator and to enrich a pretender’

A California judge has quashed one of Sonos’s legal victories against Google – and the $32.5 million royalty payout that came along with it – declaring Sonos’s patents at the heart of the matter were the unenforceable work of a “pretender” attempting to “punish an innovator … by delay and sleight of hand.”…