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Apple won the battle against Masimo for infringing Apple Watch design patents but lost the war in lifting the ban on the Blood Oxygen feature

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It's being reported that Apple convinced a federal jury on Friday that early versions of health monitoring tech company Masimo's smartwatches infringed two of its design patents as part of a broader intellectual property dispute between the companies. The jury, in Delaware, agreed with Apple that previous iterations of Masimo's W1 and Freedom watches and chargers willfully violated Apple's patent rights in smartwatch designs. Yet the jury awarded the tech giant, which is worth about $3.5 trillion, just $250 in damages - the statutory minimum for infringement in the United States, according to Reuters.

Apple's attorneys told the court the "ultimate purpose" of its lawsuit was not money, but to win an injunction against sales of Masimo's smartwatches after an infringement ruling.

On that front, jury also determined that Masimo's current watches did not infringe Apple patents covering inventions that the tech giant had accused Masimo of copying. 

Apple said in a statement that it was "glad the jury's decision today will protect the innovations we advance on behalf of our customers."

Apple also accused Masimo of using lawsuits at the ITC and in California to "make way for Masimo's own watch." For more on this, read the full Reuters report.

For those wishing to dive deeper into the verdict and Apple's options going forward, review a report by ip fray that talks about the reasoning behind Apple's patent infringement lawsuit about technology for reading blood oxygen levels and how Apple only wanted (and failed) to create a new reason for lifting the Apple Watch ban." The report provides a deep analysis of the verdict along with a pdf of the verdict form.

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