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From the Apple claims:
Sounds to me like that should be illegal, no matter who does it.
Well if it was their IP, and they had it in a product, it's theirs. They registered it over 10 years ago. Did Apple just magically come up with the same idea, or did they see and copy it?
A patent troll usually sits on patents they don't use. This is a legitimate company with products. A small guy that cannot afford to file paperwork for all their stuff immediately shouldn't be penalised.
One thing that is weird is that apple always has a lot of people ready to defend the big multi-billion dollar corp.
You can see patents once they get published, not when the provisional claim gets filed... so no, Apple could not see and copy it.
According to Masimo, Apple lured some engineers from Masimo to develop a solution... that happened to be similar enough that Masimo could file, and this time publish a patent after the fact that made Apple infringe it.
Even more people look at the finger and miss the Moon of a broken patent aystem.
That's even worse. When they're hiring multiple devs from there, they cannot claim they didn't know it existed. Also, if the product actually exists, they don't need to see a patent filing to copy it...