Sonos today announced plans to “forward-publish” its patent applications well before they are available to the public, with the hope they will help other individuals and companies looking to invent technologies that improve the overall music experience. Sonos says it is making one exception for its new rule: applications that cover inventions that are not yet in publicly available Sonos products. Here is the company’s reasoning for the policy change: We know that others can – and will – benefit from the time, energy and investment we have put into our patented inventions, not to mention our products themselves. And...

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