February 22, 2024
Samsung plans to ask a Texas court to force a patent litigation business to disclose communications with litigation funders ahead of a trial next month over whether the tech giant's former in-house counsel stole trade secrets. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.
December 20, 2023
The U.S. International Trade Commission on Wednesday denied Apple's request to stay an order that will soon halt imports of Apple Watch models found to infringe Masimo Corp. patents, unless it is vetoed by the White House.
December 06, 2023
Federal Circuit judges on Wednesday questioned Apple Inc.'s contention that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board wrongly upheld the validity of two Masimo Corp. patents on technology for measuring oxygen in the blood, which Apple is accused of infringing in a California case.
May 23, 2023
Apple urged a California federal judge Monday to deny Masimo's bid to revive its business trade secrets claim in a dispute over the Apple Watch's health features, arguing his order "correctly summarized" their scope, and that it wasn't "uncommon for courts to summarize wordy purported trade secrets" when issuing orders.
May 10, 2023
Masimo urged a California federal judge to "remedy this manifest injustice" over the axing of its business trade secrets in its battle over the Apple Watch's health features, arguing the judge simplified the trade secret descriptions to conclude they were generally known without addressing evidence that showed otherwise.
May 04, 2023
Masimo and Apple lost dueling motions for judgment as matter of law in a trade secrets fight over the smartwatch, after a California federal judge found some trade secret issues "turn on witness credibility" and "boil down to a classic battle of the experts," according to an order made public on Thursday.
May 01, 2023
A California federal judge declared a mistrial Monday afternoon in Masimo Corp.'s $1.85 billion intellectual property dispute accusing Apple of misappropriating trade secrets to develop its smartwatch's pulse oximetry features, after a jury panel repeatedly indicated they were unable to come to a unanimous decision.
April 28, 2023
A California federal jury deliberating for the third day on whether Apple Inc. misappropriated Masimo Corp.'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.
April 26, 2023
An attorney for Masimo on Wednesday told a California federal jury during closing arguments of the company's high-stakes intellectual property case over Apple's smartwatch that internal Apple emails show the tech giant's theft of Masimo's trade secrets was "intentional and malicious" while Apple's attorney said no theft occurred.
April 25, 2023
Apple rested its defense on Tuesday in a trial over Masimo Corp.'s $3.1 billion Apple Watch intellectual property claims with its final witness, an IP expert who trashed Masimo's damages theory and said the money sought over alleged theft of trade secrets is wildly overestimated.