Pada tahun 2014, menjelang peluncuran Apple Watch, beberapa ahli Masimo mulai direkrut oleh Apple.
“Some of the talent (Apple recruited) has access to deep wells of trade secrets and information,” said Joe Kiani, chief executive officer of medical device firm Masimo Corp, who lost his chief medical officer to Apple in mid-2013. Kiani said that Apple was offering sizeable salaries with little indication of what researchers would be doing. “They are just buying people,” he said. “I just hope Apple is not doing what we’re doing.”Sekadar info, Masimo adalah perusahaan teknologi kesehatan yang berfokus pada pengambangan fitur pemantauan pasien non-invasif.
Secara spesifik mereka mengembangkan teknologi oksimeter denyut nadi.
Sampai sekarang pihak Apple masih belum mengeluarkan tanggapan apapun terhadap gugatan ini.
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