Apple Settles Case Over Airpods Patent Infringement With Koss Before Trial
After being accused of infringing Koss’s wireless headphone patents, Apple has agreed to settle a lawsuit over AirPods and Beats headphones, said the companies in a court filing Saturday before the scheduled Monday trial. Koss accused Apple of infringing patents in a 2020 lawsuit. At the time, the company claimed that it invented wireless headphones in general and true wireless in-ear ones in particular: The first of the five specific claims appears to be arguing that Apple infringed a Koss patent on the underlying technology behind any wireless headphones....