> reward Masimo for their innovation
Except there doesn’t seem to be particularly innovative about those patents. Masimo just excepts to be rewarded for filling them..
Except there doesn’t seem to be particularly innovative about those patents. Masimo just excepts to be rewarded for filling them..
> Masimo has been on the cutting edge of pulse-oximetry
Maybe because they built an artificial patent moat around themselves and no other company can compete?
Philips and Siemens, of all companies, decided to partner and license the technology, and Apple decided they can toss them around.
Sure sure.
But no, that’s actually the hard part. Something Apple did manage to accomplish quite well though (just like many other smaller companies would be able to do if there were no trivial patents preventing them from doing that).