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The Sonos Patent Win Against Google

Software is not patentable because software doesn’t make a new machine.

I don’t have many hot buttons, but this is one of them. I am one of those guys who doesn’t really like patents, to begin with. One thing I dislike even more is software patents. The problem I have with patents is that their terms are too long and they chill innovation downstream. The Sonos patents on smart speaker functionality are…