But isn't the deal already done and dusted between beats and Apple?
One reason that I don't think anyone has mentioned yet regarding why Bose are actively bringing beats to court, is that beats already have history of aggressively pursuing Bose's core customer base, with the release of the beats executive.
The executive as name suggests is aimed at such and who travel in the course of their business. Bose appear to have had this market sown up unchallenged, then beats make a lunge for a slice of the young to middle aged business sector, and now they may have infringed on Bose's ANC patents - no guessing which model of beats any improved ANC would be utilised into first.
Bose are under no ambiguity that beats have their sights aimed on business sector and key to this is quality ANC, which the current model of beats executive doesn't match up to Bose's standard by a long shot. No wonder Bose are looking to protect their ANC patents - if a company like beats now owned by Apple were left unchallenged, Bose could lose their ANC market overnight.