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Apple Legal Battle Among Masimo's Rising Litigation Costs
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you should look into getting a degree in law then
Go back 20 years. Apple settled for $100 million because someone with a vague "music playing device" concept patent claimed that the ipod infringed. Steve Jobs saw patent trolls as an existential threat and directed everyone to start patenting anything they could think up, even if it wasn't practical and never planned to make it into a product. You could speculate that the threat has been neutralized by this strategy, and Apple is still here because of it.
broken system. think of all the things big companies get away with due to no one being able to hold them accountable? Makes you think
Apple will bleed them dry and then buy them with cash for pennies on the dollar. Oops…forgot. We don’t make pennies anymore. Ok, Apple will by them for nickels on the dollar.
Apple is such a stingy bunch. They love to get on the stage to say how much they care about people’s health, yet they’re shipping the watch without an essential feature. It would’ve cost them a few cents per watch sold to have the sensor. In the process, they’re also attempting to kill a company that innovates in the healthcare field.
I’ve given my series 7 with blood oxygen to a family member, and I have kept my pre-ordered series 9 that has blood oxygen still enabled, I tell everyone the issues with new Apple watches is they are missing this critical feature and until Apple restores it, it’s useless to purchase one that has it disabled in hopes that it will one day become enabled.
Apple should be sued for taking this approach and removing a feature from people‘s watches. Infuriating.
Can you demand that the company or person you sue pay your legal fees if they lose the case?
The problem is Masimo did not want a few cents per watch sold. Per an article in MacRumors, they wanted $100/watch.
Massimo Article in 2024
You can always get another degree. Education never ends (unless a taco kills it all).
You assume Apple wanted to license it. I have a feeling they did not.
What a disgusting angle. It's like the writer is saying Masimo is reaping karma for DARING to sue Apple.
I could see a class action lawsuit from Apple Watch customers who were denied access to the SpO2 sensor.
At that point it's cheaper to hire lawyers. But i suppose no patent lawyer would go for that deal while there was big money to be made.
To be fair most of the damage was done by the previous CEO and the board who approved the move to buy sound business united for over a billion dollars and then sell at basically a 66% loss.
An example of the whole problem with the system.
If Masimo won, Apple should have to pay 100% of ALL legals fees for Masimo.
It depends on the court, prior precedent, the judge (or magistrate), and even the laws of the place the suit is happening in.
I didn't read that into Julie's writing at all. "Here's what it costs to sue Apple", and that's all the article was about.