Bose Gets Win as Federal Circuit Wipes Out Koss Earbud Patents

July 19, 2024, 5:03 PM UTC

The Federal Circuit deemed invalid a trio of Koss Corp. wireless earbud patents the headphone maker accused rivals including Bose Corp. and Apple Inc. of infringing.

A California court’s ruling in another lawsuit that the three patents asserted are abstract and ineligible for patent protection make it unnecessary for the appeals court to review the validity findings of an administrative patent tribunal in challenges brought by Bose, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit wrote in an opinion Friday.

Koss sued Bose, Apple, Plantronics Inc., and several other companies in mid-2020 over a family of patents that ...

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