On Thursday, July 10, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will hear oral arguments in Google v. Sonos (No. 24-1097). Front and center in this appeal is the issue of prosecution laches. Sonos’ brief frames the question in this way: “Whether the district court erred in applying prosecution laches to declare the ‘885 and ‘966 patents unenforceable, based on nothing but standard continuation practice that did not extend the patents’ terms.”

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