<P> In June 2015, the Wall Street Journal reported that in retaliation for the lawsuit, Apple Inc. revoked Monster's membership in the MFi Program on May 5, 2015, meaning that Monster can no longer manufacture licensed accessories for iPhone, iPod and iPad products, and must cease the sale of existing licensed products that contain the certification or technology licensed through the program by September 2015 . </P> <P> The case was dismissed in August 2016, with a Supreme Court ruling that Beats "had the right to terminate the agreement as of January 7th, 2013 or when there was a transaction resulting in a change of control of Beats", and that Monster "did not obtain the right to approve the change of control . Nor did the agreement require that any change of control had to be objectively reasonable". </P> <P> Beats' original product line were Beats by Dre headphones . In promotional materials, Dre outlined the line's advantages by alleging that listeners were not able to hear "all" of the music with most headphones, and that Beats would allow people to "hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should: the way I do ." In comparison to most headphones, Beats products were characterized by an emphasis towards producing larger amounts of bass, and are particularly optimized towards hip - hop and pop music . In October 2012, Beats unveiled its first two self - developed products, the Beats Executive noise - cancelling headphones (to compete with similar offerings by Bose and Sennheiser) and the Beats Pill portable speaker . In October 2015, Beats launched a new collection of speakers including the upgraded Beats Pill+ Speaker . </P> <P> The company has also licensed the Beats brand, under the name Beats Audio (rendered beats audio), and technology to other manufacturers . In 2009, HP began to offer personal computers equipped with Beats Audio systems, beginning with its HP Envy line . The system features a software equalizer with a preset that HP marketed as being optimized for higher quality sound output . Beats Electronics ceased its partnership with HP following its purchase by Apple Inc.; HP subsequently entered into a similar agreement with Bang & Olufsen . </P>

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