Masimo Sues Apple for Stealing Trade Secrets for Health Monitoring Functions in Apple Watch

[ani4ani]

No it effing is not a fine line. Regarding expertise gained through employment, if it’s in your brain it’s yours.

This is agreed at the very outset by both parties.

Apple is profiting HANDSOMELY off the minds of its employees. Off the expertise they bring to Apple and the expertise they generate during their time there.

Again, this is something both parties agree to.

If Apple chooses not to pay an employee enough to want to continue this arrangement, the employee can bring their experience to anybody else who wants to profit by investing in a similar agreement.

JFC it’s the people that make a company great, but you people are talking about serfs, not employees.

a nice utopian idea, but business doesn’t work like that, hence why the patent system exists, copyright law, trade secrets, non-competes, non-disclosures etc exist. You see 99% of knowledge is not in the brain, it has to be written down and recorded and that’s why it’s a fine line who “owns” said knowledge.

 

[MrTemple]

a nice utopian idea, but business doesn’t work like that, hence why the patent system exists, copyright law, trade secrets, non-competes, non-disclosures etc exist. You see 99% of knowledge is not in the brain, it has to be written down and recorded and that’s why it’s a fine line on “owns” said knowledge.

You literally just described how clearly distinct and well defined the line is. 🤦‍♂️

 

[ani4ani]

You literally just described how clearly distinct and well defined the line is. 🤦‍♂️

I agree...generally not with the employee!

 

[predation]

Tim: oh fiddle wink. Let’s just buy them.

 

[nylonsteel]

i always had to sign company non compete contracts before hire

 

[chatin]

Apple wants to make sure the companies they meet with don't have any underutilized ideas that will change the world.

 

[shadowmatt]

Whoever works at Masimo and agreed to let Apple anywhere near their tech / employees should be fired.

Apple has form for contacting companies about their tech and then stealing the tech and related employees.

 

[alien3dx]

Whoever works at Masimo and agreed to let Apple anywhere near their tech / employees should be fired.

Apple has form for contacting companies about their tech and then stealing the tech and related employees.

the most problem of this industry is income. You cannot block idea but you can give equipment to improve the idea and pro-claim as pattern. If you really scare your product just sign NDA and said it yours but that's maybe version 1.0 and idea been paper work while the idea of developer maybe on version 4.0