Bose sues Beats

[wgscott]

Pass the popcorn!

 

Bose accuses Beats of using patented noise-cancelling tech | Ars Technica

 

Bose Corp. filed a lawsuit on Friday that accuses popular headphone maker Beats Electronics of infringing upon several of its patents.

 

The suit claims that Bose lost sales because Beats—which Apple announced it would acquire for $3 billion in May—used patented noise-cancelling technology in its Studio and Studio Wireless headphone lines.

 

Beats’ products that allegedly use the technology “can also be used for noise cancellation when no music is played, a feature that Beats also advertises,” the suit states. “Thus, Beats specifically encourages users to use the infringing functionality. Beats advertises no method to turn off features that cause end users to directly infringe.”

 

Bose specifically alleges that Beats infringed on five US patents: patent 6,717,537, titled “Method and Apparatus for Minimizing Latency in Digital Signal Processing Systems;” patent 8,073,150, a “Dynamically Configurable ANR Signal Processing Topology;” patent 8,073,151, a “Dynamically Configurable ANR Filter Block Technology;” patent 8,054,992, which specifies a method for high frequency compensating; and patent 8,345,888, which covers “Digital High Frequency Phase Compensation.”

[new_media]

I wonder if they plan to sue everyone that makes noise-canceling headphones, or just companies with $165 billion in cash.

[wgscott]

Didn't stop them from suing Consumer Reports.

[mav52]

Didn't stop them from suing Consumer Reports.

 

And the Bose win was later overturned " The Court of Appeals then reversed the trial court's ruling on liability, and the United States Supreme Court affirmed in a 6–3 vote in the case Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc., finding that the statement was made without actual malice, and therefore there was no libel" Bose Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[rsorren1]

Wow. Where's DallasJustice when you need him??