April 28, 2023
A California federal jury deliberating for the third day on whether Apple Inc. misappropriated Masimo Corp.'s trade secrets to develop pulse oximetry features in its smartwatch will resume Monday with one less juror, a single mother of a 10-year-old, who revealed Friday she'd been serving for the past month without a paycheck.
April 26, 2023
An attorney for Masimo on Wednesday told a California federal jury during closing arguments of the company's high-stakes intellectual property case over Apple's smartwatch that internal Apple emails show the tech giant's theft of Masimo's trade secrets was "intentional and malicious" while Apple's attorney said no theft occurred.
April 25, 2023
Apple rested its defense on Tuesday in a trial over Masimo Corp.'s $3.1 billion Apple Watch intellectual property claims with its final witness, an IP expert who trashed Masimo's damages theory and said the money sought over alleged theft of trade secrets is wildly overestimated.
April 24, 2023
Apple told a California federal judge on Saturday that, after three weeks of testimony, there is no need to let jurors decide Masimo Corp.'s $3.1 billion Apple Watch intellectual property claims, as Masimo's case "crumbled" while its supposed trade secrets were "revealed to be bits and bobs."
April 14, 2023
Masimo's former chief medical officer, accused of taking the company's business trade secrets to Apple, told a California federal jury Friday in Masimo's $3.1 billion intellectual property case that Apple was already working on pulse oximetry features in the blockbuster smartwatch before he was hired in 2013.
April 13, 2023
The vice president of Apple's hardware technologies group took the stand Thursday in Masimo Corp. and Cercacor Laboratories Inc.'s $3.1 billion intellectual property trial in California federal court over pulse oximetry features in the Apple Watch, denying Apple hired the plaintiffs' chief technology officer to steal the smaller companies' trade secrets.
April 11, 2023
A California federal jury considering Masimo Corp.'s $3.1 billion suit accusing Apple of poaching employees to misappropriate pulse oximetry technology heard recorded testimony Tuesday from Apple Inc. executives, including one who said in an email that health sensors were the Apple Watch's most important feature, and "on current path the sensor effort will fail."
April 10, 2023
Masimo Corp.'s chief operating officer took the stand Monday in the company's $3.1 billion intellectual property suit over pulse oximetry technology in Apple watches, telling a California jury Masimo took numerous security measures to protect confidential information and required employees — including two who left for Apple — to sign confidentiality agreements.
April 07, 2023
A Masimo Corp. co-founder testifying in the company's $3.1 billion intellectual property suit over pulse oximetry technology in Apple Watches conceded to a California federal jury Friday that he didn't know which trade secrets Apple allegedly misappropriated and wasn't aware of any Apple patents for which Masimo claims he should be named an inventor.
April 06, 2023
A California federal judge on Thursday repeatedly sealed a $3.1 billion trial over Masimo Corp.'s claims that Apple stole trade secrets and infringed patents for pulse oximetry technology in its blockbuster Apple Watch, allowing Masimo's founders to testify for hours behind closed doors to nonpublic details about the disputed technology.