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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Santa Barbara-based whole home audio systems maker Sonos has filed another patent infringement suit at Google , saying that Google has infringed on five wireless audio patents held by the company. The lawsuit is the second filed against Google by Sonos, which also sued Google over similar patents in January.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

Santa Barbara-based whole home, smart speaker manufacturer Sonos , one of Southern California's highest profile consumer electronics companies, has sued Google for patent infringement--claiming that Google has infringed on five of its patents, and seeking both a ban on the sale of Google's speakers, smartphones, and laptops, as well as financial damages. (..)

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JUNE 21, 2019

Santa Barbara-based whole home music system developer Sonos has sued Lenbrook Industries Ltd , the parent company of Bluesound Wireless Music Systems , over patent infringement, according to a court filing. alleging patent infringement. alleging patent infringement. According to a filing in the U.S. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 21, 2018

Vista-based Sound United , the parent firm of audio brands Denon, Marantz, Polk Audio, Definitive Technology, HEOS, Boston Acoustics and ClasseAudio, says it has settled all of the patent infringement litigation between the company and Santa Barbara-based Sonos. Terms of the settlement are confidential.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Santa Barbara-based whole home audio systems developer Sonos has scored a win in the courts this week, when a federal judge invalidated a home audio patent held by D&M Holdings , the owner of such brands as Denon and Boston Acoustics. D&M Holdings had filed a patent infringement suit (D&M Holdings et al.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest , the online comparison and research site headed by Kevin O''Connor, scored a legal win Friday, saying that a judge has invalidated a software patent owned by Lumen View Technology, LLC, which is in the midst of a patent battle with the company. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 8, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Sonos , the developer of whole-home music streaming systems, has declared victory in a patent infringement suit, which had been filed against the firm in 2012. The case--filed by Black Hills Media--had been slated to go to trial in June. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 11, 2014

Santa Barbara-based wireless speaker maker Sonos said Monday that it will start "forward-publishing" its patent applications, making the text of those patents available to the public far before they normally would be, saying it wants to "accelerate innovation". READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest , the products review startup headed by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O''Connor, has a new mission in life: fight patent trolls. findthebest patent troll lawsuit legal rico doubleclick' READ MORE>>.

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JULY 3, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Yardi , the developer of real estate and property management software, looks to have scored a win in a patent lawsuit against RealPage , a developer of cloud-based software for the rental housing industry.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

International Trade Commission has taken up a complaint, filed by Santa Barbara-based Sonos , that Google has been importing and selling goods which Sonos says infringe upon its patents. The move is the latest in a big battle between Sonos and Google.

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APRIL 8, 2009

Santa Barbara-based InTouch Technologies , which develops robotic telepresence sysetms for the health care industry, revealed this morning that it has settled a legal dispute with HeadThere Inc. over the firm's patents. patents, for products to be sold outside the United States.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

The Santa Barbara-based online services division of Citrix Systems has been sued in the Florida Southern District Court, over alleged patent infringement. Pragmatus has patent suits pending against Facebook, Youtube, LinkedIn, and others over similar patent infringement claims.

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JULY 19, 2011

Los Angeles-based RPost , a developer of electronic signature services, has filed a suit against Adobe and EchoSign for patent infringement, the firm said this morning. RPost sued Santa Barbara-based RightSignature and fellow electronic signature firm DocuSign in June over the same patents. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 27, 2011

Santa Barbara-based RightSignature , the provider of electronic signature services, as well as one of its customers--Farmers Insurance--has just been sued by competing electronic signature service RPost. The lawsuit Rmail Limited et al v. Right Signature, LLC et al--was filed on Friday. RPost also has operations in Los Angeles.

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APRIL 6, 2011

The semiconductor technology startup was spun out of research at the University of California Santa Barbara, by professors Shuji Nakamura, Steve DenBaars, and Jim Speck. manufacturing capacity for volume production. manufacturing capacity for volume production. No details on production dates were given. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

In Mark Suster’s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara , he advised his audience of entrepreneurial students to master two skills: selling and coding. Unless your venture is focused on researching potential scientific breakthroughs, it is likely that your technology can be easily copied and your patents circumvented.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 12, 2015

One of these bright lights is Santa Barbara-based HG Data - developers of the world's largest competitive-intelligence database. <Note: According to the National Center for Women & Information Technology, mixed-gender teams produce patents that are cited up to 42% more often.

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JUNE 19, 2014

Jeff Overall: It all started back in 2011, when I was going to the University of Santa Barbara. We did get a patent on our first, snap-on camera mount, but maybe if we had put a little more resources and time into solidifying those patents, so they were not easily worked around would have been good.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. While at UC Santa Barbara, I started a café which served over 1100 dorm residents. It also helps if there is a reason that other people can’t compete with you, either because of some trade secret or patent.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

As an Instructor of entrepreneurship at UC Santa Barbara, I welcomed the chance to read Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson’s Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer And Venture Capitalist. Don’t Overemphasize Patents. Don’t Email Carpet Bomb VCs. No Often Means No. Don’t Ask For A Referral If You Get A No.

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JUNE 15, 2011

We've been innovating over the last fifteen months, and have to patents pending on the technology right now. You've been in more traditional entertainment firms--as an executive in a big studio--why jump to a startup? Eric Frankel: It was "be careful what you wish for".

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AUGUST 4, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Ice Energy (www.ice-energy.com) has quietly been working away at developing energy storage systems to help smooth out the demand for energy on the nation's power grid. We have thirteen patents associated with the Ice bear. megawatts of energy.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers.

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