Central District of California Jury Returns Patent Verdict for Masimo

This past week, a trimmed-down patent case (8:20-cv-00048) filed by Masimo and Cercacor Laboratories against Apple produced a $634M verdict, returned by a Central District of California jury, for Masimo. The jury found four claims from a single Masimo patent infringed by accused versions of the Apple Watch providing a feature for alerting wearers to an abnormal heart rate under certain circumstances. Central to the case seems to have been whether an Apple Watch is a “patient monitor”, as recited in the tried claims.