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Read this pattern through Google (they have PDFs provided), isn’t it describing the finger sensor pretty much every health care provider uses? Especially the figures they put in, non of them looks like a consumer daily device.

Not a typical pattern troll but an innovative one. Now they can pretty much go after any companies in this area! I feel they are after Apple just because Apple Watch succeeded.

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Yeah, I'd really love to see some commentary from someone with experience in the medical device industry about whether there's anything novel in the patent. It was originally filed in 2008, but that was thirty years after Minolta made the first fingertip pulse oximetry sensor. They might be using different wavelengths of light, but Apple could be as well.

Everyone saying "there's nothing new here" : there's a whole body of law governing how this is decided. You can be 100% certain that Apple's lawyers are exploiting it to the max.

But simply asserting that is not going to change the outcome any.

> I feel they are after Apple just because Apple Watch succeeded.

Exactly. Why would they sue an unsuccessful company with no money?

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