A jury found against the gadget titan, ordering it to pay $634 million to the health tech company Masimo, while on the same day the U.S. International Trade Commission announced it will reexamine whether it may want to impose an import ban on Apple Watches—also due to Masimo-related concerns. A representative said “Over the past six years” Masimo has sued in multiple courts, and “asserted over 25 patents, the majority of which have been found to be invalid.” The verdict in this case concerns a patent, which Apple claims, “expired in 2022, and is specific to historic patient monitoring technology from decades ago.” The whole complicated affair supposedly goes back to 2013, when Apple first sought a dialogue with Masimo about creating watches that monitor people’s pulses, and then ended up hiring two former Masimo executives and giving them salaries twice as high as what they had been making, according to a story in the Los Angeles Times.
Author: Mike Pearl
Published at: 2025-11-15 23:10:33
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