On January 6 (local time), the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) filed a final ruling of a US audio maker SONOS for Google's patent violation complaint.Google is determined to violate the five patents of SONOS related to smart speakers.If the Biden administration does not activate veto, the prohibition of importing Google products to the United States may come into effect within 60 days.
SONOS is a statement sent to the New York Times, thanks to the ITC ruling, but "Google may deteriorate or delete the function of the product to avoid the ban on ITC.) Or you can pay fair royalty to abused technology. "
Google says to the media, "I don't agree with today's decision, but I am grateful that ITC has approved the design we have changed. This will not affect the import or sales of products.There is a further review, and we continue to protect our partnerships and intellectual property based on the unfounded Sonos claims. "
SONOS said in a filed filing last January, Google had infringed on home audio systems, synchronization of multiple speakers, diverse speakers independent volume control, and stereo pairing of speakers.
On the same day, Google stated on the official blog for the NEST community, saying, "We have changed the device setup method to deal with recent ruling. The speaker group function will continue to function in the future."
When I contacted Google Japanese corporations, it was confirmed that this would affect Japanese users.
If the volume of the Google Home app is controlled using the speaker group function, if you operate it with Google Assistant, or if you use it directly on the NEST HUB display, the following changes are the following changes.be.
[Update history: January 7, 2022 3:40 pm, a description of Google Japanese corporation and official statement by Google have been added.]
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