Sonos Wins Google Import Ban Ruling in US Patent Fight

The Google name is displayed outside the company's office in London on Nov. 1, 2018. Toby Melville/Reuters

WASHINGTON—A U.S. trade court barred Google late Thursday from importing products that infringe home-audio company Sonos’s smart-speaker patents.

The U.S. International Trade Commission affirmed an August decision that Google audio products infringed five Sonos patents and banned Google from importing “networked speaker devices” and devices that can control them like mobile phones and laptops.