Sonos Moves for ITC Order Compelling Google to Produce Physical ‘Redesigns’

Sonos filed a confidential motion Thursday for an International Trade Commission order compelling Google to produce physical samples of the device “redesigns” claimed to be built without the embedded source code that Sonos alleges infringe its multiroom audio patents. Sonos maintains the redesigns are “hypothetical,” not real, and should be struck from the Section 337 investigation into the allegations because Google refuses to produce the physical samples for Sonos to test (see 2009110007).