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Title: Apple wins Bluetooth pairing patent case as judge applied commonsense test
Post by: HCK on August 22, 2023, 04:05:04 pm
Apple wins Bluetooth pairing patent case as judge applied commonsense test

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/08/Bluetooth-pairing-patent.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1500)</div><p><a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/aapl/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Apple[/url] has successfully defended itself against claims that it infringed two <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/bluetooth/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bluetooth[/url] pairing <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/patents/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">patents[/url] relating to <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/airpods/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AirPods[/url]. The claim was a ridiculous one, but might have succeeded on a technical point of law. Fortunately, sanity prevailed when the appeal judge decided to apply a commonsense test.</p>



<p>One-E-Way held two patents for a system of generating a “unique user code,” which is sent to a headphone to enable it to pair with the other device …</p>



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