{"id":482,"date":"2025-11-15T20:33:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T21:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.favorsfavors.com\/?p=482"},"modified":"2025-12-08T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:51:00","slug":"apple-hit-with-634-million-verdict-in-apple-watch-patent-fight-with-masimo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.favorsfavors.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/15\/apple-hit-with-634-million-verdict-in-apple-watch-patent-fight-with-masimo\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple hit with $634 million verdict in Apple Watch patent fight with Masimo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/09\/The-Apple-Watch-blood-oxygen-lawsuit.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\"><\/div>\n<p>A federal jury in California has sided with Masimo in a patent battle with Apple over Apple Watch\u2019s blood oxygen feature. The jury awarded Masimo $634 million in damages and concluded that Apple infringed on a Masimo patent covering low power pulse oximeter features.<\/p>\n<p>As explained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyjournal.com\/articles\/388571-masimo-wins-634-million-verdict-against-apple-in-high-stakes-patent-fight-over-apple-watch\"><em>Daily Journal<\/em><\/a>, much of the case centered on whether Apple Watch can be categorized as a \u201cpatient monitor\u201d per Masimo\u2019s patent.<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"apple-watch\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1028558\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/11\/15\/apple-hit-with-634-million-verdict-in-apple-watch-patent-fight-with-masimo\/#more-1028558\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal jury in California has sided with Masimo in a patent battle with Apple over Apple Watch\u2019s blood oxygen feature. The jury awarded Masimo $634 million in damages and concluded that Apple infringed on a Masimo patent covering low power pulse oximeter features. As explained by Daily Journal, much of the case centered on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.favorsfavors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.favorsfavors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.favorsfavors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.favorsfavors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.favorsfavors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.favorsfavors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"http:\/\/www.favorsfavors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.favorsfavors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.favorsfavors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.favorsfavors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.favorsfavors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}