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Apple, Masimo Denied Post-Trial Wins In $1.85B Watch IP Row

IP Law 360

MAY 4, 2023

After declaring a mistrial in Masimo's trade secrets case over the Apple Watch's pulse oximetry features, a California federal judge Thursday largely denied Apple's motion for judgment as matter of law, finding some trade secret issues "turn on witness credibility" and "boil down to a classic battle of the experts."

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Masimo Exec Testifies To Secrecy Steps In $3B Apple Trial

IP Law 360

APRIL 10, 2023

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. Masimo Corp.'s

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Masimo Co-Founder Hazy On Co.'s Claims In $3.1B Apple Suit

IP Law 360

APRIL 7, 2023

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. A Masimo Corp.

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Fed. Circ. Upholds Patent App Injunction In Trade Secret Row

IP Law 360

JANUARY 24, 2022

rightly won a preliminary injunction from a California federal judge blocking a former employee's patent application on a pulse oximeter from becoming public over trade secret exposure. The Federal Circuit on Monday held that Masimo Corp. and Cercacor Laboratories Inc.

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Ex-Masimo CMO Denies Sharing Trade Secrets With Apple

IP Law 360

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.

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Masimo Execs Testify Behind Closed Doors In $3B Apple Trial

IP Law 360

APRIL 6, 2023

A California federal judge on Thursday repeatedly sealed a $3.1 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.

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Apple Exec Denies Hiring Cercacor CTO To Steal Watch Tech

IP Law 360

APRIL 13, 2023

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. The vice president of Apple's hardware technologies group took the stand Thursday in Masimo Corp.

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Apple Exec Voiced Concern About Sensor Efforts, Jury Hears

IP Law 360

APRIL 11, 2023

A California federal jury considering Masimo Corp.'s billion suit accusing Apple of poaching employees to misappropriate pulse oximetry technology heard recorded testimony Tuesday from Apple Inc.

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reliance can be presumed in NY from material misleadingness, as in California

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Materiality is what satisfies the causation requirement, as in securities fraud cases and in California consumer protection cases. Plaintiff showed (1) and there was enough to go to a jury on (2).

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Does Prior Publication Extinguish a Trade Secret?

Patently-O

JANUARY 25, 2022

On appeal, the Federal Circuit affirmed that preliminary injunction as warranted based upon California state trade secrecy law. How does it work : The LED emitter sends out a pulse of light through the fingertip; a sensor on the other side then measures how much light passed through at various wavelengths.

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Making Chips Abroad and Infringing a U.S. Patent

Patently-O

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

California Institute of Technology v. Pulse Elecs., Broadcom includes an important discussion of extraterritorial damages further extending Carnegie Mellon (Fed. 2015) in finding that manufacture and delivery of a product in a foreign country can infringe a US patent if sufficient sales-activity occurred within the US. Broadcom Ltd.

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Preliminary Injunction Upheld in Trade Secret Dispute Despite Prior Publication

The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

At some point after leaving Masimo, Dr. Lamego founded True Wearables where he developed the Oxxiom pulse oximeter and filed patent applications on certain aspects of its design. The District Court for the Central District of California evaluated the Winter factors to determine whether to grant the motion for preliminary injunction.

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Preliminary Injunction Upheld in Trade Secret Dispute Despite Prior Publication

LexBlog IP

JANUARY 27, 2022

At some point after leaving Masimo, Dr. Lamego founded True Wearables where he developed the Oxxiom pulse oximeter and filed patent applications on certain aspects of its design. The District Court for the Central District of California evaluated the Winter factors to determine whether to grant the motion for preliminary injunction.

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Masimo Jury Ends Week With Drama, No Verdict, 1 Less Juror

IP Law 360

APRIL 28, 2023

A California federal jury deliberating for the third day on whether Apple Inc. 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. misappropriated Masimo Corp.'s

Federal Circuit Deems Algorithm Potentially Valid Trade Secret Notwithstanding Prior Publication

LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Lamego misappropriated Masimo’s TSS algorithm which is used in pulse oximeters to more accurately measure blood oxygen levels. After leaving Cercacor, he founded True Wearables where he developed the Oxxiom pulse oximeter device. True Wearables attempted to protect some aspects of this device by filing patent applications.

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Monthly Wrap Up (December 15, 2022): Noteworthy Trade Secret and Restrictive Covenant Posts, Cases and Developments

LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 15, 2022

District Court for the Central District of California has issued a highly factual decision that addresses, among other things, the intersection of a researcher’s general skill and knowledge and his former employer’s confidential research information. In Masimo Corp. True Wearables, Inc., In Pinkerton Tobacco v.

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Monthly Wrap Up (May 12, 2023): Noteworthy Trade Secret and Restrictive Covenant Decisions, Posts and Articles

LexBlog IP

MAY 12, 2023

District Court for the Northern District of California after the jury acknowledged it was deadlocked over the claims before it. billion in damages against Apple, as well as co-ownership of 5 Apple pulse oximetry patents that Masimo said use its technology. In that case, Masimo Corp. is seeking $1.8

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