US jury says Google owes Sonos $32.5 million in smart-speaker patent case


FILE PHOTO The logo for Google LLC is seen at the Google Store Chelsea in Manhattan New York City U.S. November 17 2021. REUTERSAndrew Kelly

FILE PHOTO: The logo for Google LLC is seen at the Google Store Chelsea in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., November 17, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

(Reuters) -Alphabet Inc's Google must pay $32.5 million in damages for infringing one of smart-speaker maker Sonos Inc's patents in its wireless audio devices, a San Francisco federal jury decided on Friday.

The case is part of a sprawling intellectual property dispute between the former collaborators that includes other lawsuits in the U.S., Canada, France, Germany and the Netherlands.

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