[notatoad]

right, but it sure looks like masimo's "innovation" is filing the patent paperwork for the general concept of how pulse oximeters have always worked, not anything new they invented.

filing patents for something you didn't invent is not the law working as intended.

[t0mas88]

If that was the only innovation, why would Apple go and have several meetings with them and then try to hire their engineers? Sounds like they had something that Apple wanted, and Apple decided not to pay for it. This case is the result, which certainly will be settled at some point.

[ffgjgf1]

Well they might have seen the patents and just had meetings because of that.

> with them and then try to hire their engineers

This doesn’t seem to be particularly relevant. Apple was trying to entire a new field so they hired people who already work in it

[jojobas]

I guess if Apple started harvesting live human tissue for use in their gadgets you'd have some justification for it too.

[ffgjgf1]

I see you have weird imagination. What even makes you say something as silly as this without any provocation?

I don’t care particularly about Apple or their watches. Yet even Apple can’t win against a patent troll that means any smaller company would never be able to develop and sell their products without paying Masimo.

[jojobas]

If that was the case Apple would have overturned this patent on the basis of prior art. I'm inclined to trust ITC on this one more than a random dude from the internet, even though he is not a toad.

[photonbeam]

Or, the system itself has become just stupid

[kelnos]

Maybe so, but just because darling-child Apple is the one on the wrong end of a lawsuit, it doesn't mean there's no merit.