Apple Cements Win Over Headphone Patent Claims at Fed. Circuit

Apple Inc. confirmed its victory against wireless headphone maker One-E-Way Inc., which had sued the tech giant for patent infringement.

The Federal Circuit on Monday affirmed a California federal district court’s dismissal of One-E-Way’s case, which turned on an interpretation of a key patent term.

One-E-Way alleged in its suit, filed in 2020, that Apple infringed US Patent Nos. 10,129,627 and 10,468,047 through the sales of Bluetooth-compliant Apple and Beats headphones.

The district court, however, determined that the patent covered only headphones that communicate with a transmitter device using a “unique user code,” while Apple’s products use a device code ...