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Apple Takeover Target Beats Sued by Bose Over Headphones
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Bose Corp. filed a patent-infringement action seeking to block U.S. imports of noise-canceling headphones made by Beats Electronics LLC, the company being bought by Apple Inc.
The Beats Studio and Beats Studio Wireless headphones use technology covered by five patents, Bose said in a complaint filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington yesterday. A mirror civil suit, filed today in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, makes the same allegations and is likely to be put on hold while the ITC case is pending.