Judge tosses Sonos's $32.5M patent win over Google with savage slam down
'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."...