Federal Circuit: Judge Wrongly Applied Prosecution Laches In Speaker Patent Row

( August 29, 2025, 11:03 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In mixed results for both parties, a Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Aug. 28 held that a California federal judge wrongly invalidated claims in some of a speaker company’s patents in a dispute with Google LLC and improperly applied prosecution laches, while also holding that the judge correctly invalidated claims in another one of the speaker company’s patents....