By Blake Brittain<\/b><\/p>\n
Africa-Press – Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span>Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) must pay patent holding company Personal Audio LLC $15.1 million for infringing two patents related to audio software, a Delaware federal jury said in a verdict made public on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Personal Audio had argued that Google’s music app Google Play Music featured playlist downloading, navigation and editing features that violated its patent rights.<\/p>\n The jury also said that Google infringed the patents willfully, which could lead to a judge increasing the award by up to three times the verdict amount.<\/p>\n Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda said on Wednesday that the company was disappointed with the verdict and plans to appeal. He said the verdict concerns a “discontinued product” and would not affect customers.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Personal Audio’s law firm Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth said on Wednesday that the firm was pleased with the verdict.<\/p>\n Beaumont, Texas-based Personal Audio had requested $33.1 million in damages, according to a May court filing. It first sued Google in 2015 over the patents in a lawsuit that was later moved from Texas to Delaware.<\/p>\n The Delaware verdict came less than a month after a San Francisco jury ordered Google to pay Sonos $32.5 million for patent infringement amid a sprawling intellectual property dispute between the companies over smart-speaker technology.<\/p>\n The case is Personal Audio LLC v. Google LLC, U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, No. 1:17-cv-01751.<\/p>\n For Personal Audio: Steve Hanle, Doug Hahn and Salil Bali of Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth<\/p>\n For Google: Melissa Baily, Jeff Nardinelli, David Perlson, Antonio Sistos and Patrick Stafford of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan<\/p>\n For More News And Analysis About Eritrea<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Blake Brittain Africa-Press – Eritrea. Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) must pay patent holding company Personal Audio LLC $15.1 million for infringing two patents related to audio software, a Delaware federal jury said in a verdict made public on Wednesday. Personal Audio had argued that Google’s music app Google Play Music featured playlist downloading, navigation and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":18400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[242,243,233],"class_list":["post-18401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-miscellaneous","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-eritrea","tag-eritrea"],"yoast_head":"\n