Why on Earth would Apple pay around $3bn for Beats? Ahead of the deal Monster's founder and 'Head Monster', Noel Lee volunteered a comment: 'For the first five years, until 2013, Monster was Beats, having developed, engineered, and distributed all of the Beats products... [but] our license with Beats ended with the purchase of Beats by HTC [the cellphone giant]. Monster, by contract, had to turn over all of the IP [that's patents and know-how] and manufacturing in 2013'. So I did a patent search.
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机译：为什么在地球上苹果要为Beats支付约30亿美元？在交易Monster的创始人和“ Head Monster”之前，Noel Lee自愿发表评论：“在头五年，直到2013年，Monster是Beats，开发，设计并分销了Beats的所有产品……[但是]我们与Beats的许可以HTC（手机巨头）对Beats的购买而告终。根据合同，Monster必须在2013年移交所有IP（即专利和专有技术）以及制造产品。因此我进行了专利检索。
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