Back in January 2020, we had reported on Apple being accused of stealing Health Monitoring technology for its smartwatch. Now, this lawsuit battle has been waging for nearly two years with no end in sight.
According to a Bloomberg report, the Cupertino based giant has denied Masimo’s accusations of stealing its trade secrets for the Apple Watch. Masimo CEO, Joe Kiani, has stated that “I’ve been through three major litigations,” but he believes that the known smartphone maker is taking this battle to another level. He further added that the company is “refusing to even play by the rules set by the court.” Meanwhile, Masimo, a signal processing technology maker for health care monitors, accused the brand of stealing its trade secrets through the hiring of one of its former executives.
The legal battle has been stalled for nearly two years, as the iPhone maker challenges the validity of the patent and disputes over access to information. Kiani said that these delays had prompted him to file a complaint with the International Trade Commission (ITC) to block the imports of the Watch Series 6 as well. For those unaware, Apple had hired Masimo’s chief technology officer, Marcelo Lamego, at Cercacor (Masimo’s subsidiary) and had allegedly filed new patents under his own name that were previously filed by Masimo.
Furthermore, Kiani also stated that Apple’s CEO Tim Cook might have been personally involved in the hiring of the Cercacor executive as well. Kiani added that “Patents began publishing with Marcelo Lamego as inventor. He had patented things, some of the things we had done 20 years ago and were in our products. This was worse than we thought. That’s when we first sued Apple.”
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