Without a doubt, patents have always been a problem for large and small companies. In this case it is a patent related to the Apple Watch, well, more than one, there is talk of a infringement of 10 patents registered by Masimo, a company that is directly dedicated to manufacturing different devices focused on people's health by obtaining data such as heart rate for example ...
In this case, it is not a new company, it is a company with experience in this technological sector of data collection and, according to Apple, they were deceived by pretending to want to establish a commercial relationship and then hiring some of their employees and also taking advantage of technology that they had patented to use in your sensor Apple Watch heart rate.
All this dates back to 2013 when in Cupertino they were beginning to fully touch these sensors for the watch that they would launch in 2015 and it is that both companies had contacts and at that time Apple hired several specialists on these issues of heart sensors. Some of these employees they came directly from Masimo like for example Michael O'Reilly, from what they say from Masimo that the Cupertino company was nourished by confidential and proprietary information from Masimo.
For now what we have is a lawsuit on the table and it remains to be seen if Apple will be able to negotiate or will end up in court for it. At the moment the company has not commented on the matter and it is expected that it will do so in the next few hours. Financial compensation can be a way out, but also requests the registration of four patents that were registered by Apple according to Masimo thanks to a former employee of his company.