Apple's $634 Million Apple Watch Patent Bill Just Got Even Bigger

Apple's $634 cardinal patent nonaccomplishment to aesculapian exertion institution Masimo has conscionable gotten adjacent bigger, aft a national justice ordered Apple to wage an further $184 cardinal successful involvement connected what it owes (via Bloomberg Law).


The ruling takes Apple's measure to astir $818 million, but that doesn't see immoderate post-judgment involvement continuing to accrue until the judgement is paid.

Judge James Selna rejected Apple's statement that adding prejudgment involvement would represent a windfall for Masimo, citing U.S. Supreme Court guidance that "interest from the clip that the royalty payments would person been received simply serves to marque the patent proprietor whole." Put different way, Masimo is being compensated for arsenic agelong arsenic it was deprived of royalty payments that it theoretically would person received during the infringement period.

It didn't each spell Masimo's way, though. Selna besides declined Masimo's petition to cipher it astatine a 7 percent rate, which would person enactment Apple's involvement measure astatine $243 million. Instead, the tribunal utilized Masimo's ain borrowing rate, compounding annually from erstwhile the infringement began.

Masimo is besides down the abstracted patent quality that led to a U.S. import prohibition connected definite Apple Watch models and resulted successful Apple disabling humor oxygen functionality connected affected recently sold models. Apple successful 2025 introduced a redesigned version of the feature.

The quality present is acrophobic with a Masimo pulse-oximetry patent. In November 2025, a assemblage recovered that Apple Watch features including heart-rate notifications infringed Masimo's patent and awarded the institution $634 million.

Apple subsequently tried to overturn oregon trim the award, but Selna upheld the verdict successful July. The patent successful question expired successful June 2022, truthful the ruling related to humanities Apple Watch income and has nary effect connected the heart-rate features successful existent Apple Watch models.
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