A destructive process. Apple and Cos, the latter a US electroacoustic company that designs and manufactures headphones, here the story ends strangely.
It was the Cupertino giant that agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by a Milwaukee headphone maker. AirPods Apple and Beats headphones, as evidenced by a court filing published by Reuters. The trial was scheduled to take place in federal court in Waco, Texas, within days.
Cos’ lawsuit against Apple alleges that Tim Cook’s company infringed on the US company’s wireless headphone patent. But beware, US District Judge Alan Albright dismissed the case with prejudice, which means it can’t be dismissed again.
Kos, subpoena to subpoena: Bose and Skalkandi are also in the sights
Cos Suing Apple in the year of the coronavirus pandemic, Cos alleges infringement of several patents covering aspects of a wireless headphone system it claims to have developed in the early 2000s. Not only that. Not only has the company, considered the inventor of the first high-fidelity stereo headset, decided to take legal action against the Cupertino giant, Bose e Skullcandy: If Apple’s situation can be considered closed, the same cannot be said of the US manufacturing company that mainly deals with the sale of audio equipment or the Park City company, which markets headphones, earphones, hands-free devices, audio. Backpacks, MP3 players and other similar products.
Always according Reuters, Koss reportedly told a Texas court that it decided to sue because the headphone industry has “reclaimed Koss’s vision of the early 2000s” and its technology has “standardized, built around entire listening ecosystems. From Koss a decade ago.” Out of words. , a request for royalties from sales of AirPods and wireless Beats headphones in Apple’s case.
The Cupertino giant, for its part, defended itself by saying that its devices did not violate any rules and that the patents were invalid. He even restarted, suing Coss in San Francisco, shortly after Coss himself filed his suit, arguing that the complaint included confidential information from their licensing negotiations. Finally, to avoid trouble, it is better to negotiate.