Sonos Gains After Winning U.S. Import Ban on Some Google Devices

<-rte-company state="{"_id":"0000017e-321f-d91b-a77f-f37ffbae0000","_type":"00000160-4b23-d8bd-adfd-4b3348fd0000"}">Sonos Inc. rose in late trading after it won a U.S. trade agency ruling that will limit the imports of some phones, laptops and speakers made overseas by Alphabet Inc.’s Google, though Google says the order will have no impact.

The <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/13361Z%20US%20Equity","_id":"0000017e-321f-d91b-a77f-f37ffbb10000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">U.S. International Trade Commission issued the ban Thursday after affirming a judge’s findings that the devices were using Sonos’s patented inventions for home-audio systems without permission. The Biden administration can veto the exclusion order on public policy grounds, though that rarely happens.

Google has 60 days -- the presidential review period -- to implement pre-approved software changes to ...