Apple-Masimo Trade Secrets Fight Ends With No Jury Verdict
- Jury voted 6-1 in favor of Apple, but holdout wouldn’t budge
- Three days of deliberations were marked by discord on panel
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Apple Inc. and Masimo Corp. failed to persuade a jury to reach a unanimous verdict in a trial where the medical-devices company claimed a blood-oxygen sensor in the Apple Watch was developed using misappropriated trade secrets.
Masimo sought as much as $1.85 billion, claiming that was the amount of illegal profit Apple earned from using its technology. But jurors in federal court in Santa Ana, California, told the judge Monday they were unable to reach a consensus, with six out of seven panelists voting to clear the iPhone maker of wrongdoing.