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> reward Masimo for their innovation Except there doesn’t seem to be particularly innovative about those patents. Masimo just excepts to be rewarded for fillin
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> reward Masimo for their innovation
Except there doesn’t seem to be particularly innovative about those patents. Masimo just excepts to be rewarded for filling them..
- jojobas 3y agoThis seems to be an uninformed opinion. Masimo has been on the cutting edge of pulse-oximetry for decades, and figuring out how to make a low power wrist pulse-oximeter is non-trivial.
- ffgjgf1 3y agoMaybe. These patents seem pretty trivial though. > Masimo has been on the cutting edge of pulse-oximetry Maybe because they built an artificial patent moat around themselves and no other company can compete?
- mrtree 3y ago“Making a wristband pulsioximeter is trivial” Sure sure.
- ffgjgf1 3y agoAre you replying to the right comment? But no, that’s actually the hard part. Something Apple did manage to accomplish quite well though (just like many other smaller companies would be able to do if there were no trivial patents preventing them from doing that).
- jojobas 3y agoPatents expire in 25 years. Either they innovate as hell or you can just verbatim reproduce their model from 25 years ago and compete, you can't have it both ways. Philips and Siemens, of all companies, decided to partner and license the technology, and Apple decided they can toss them around.
- jquery 3y ago25 years is the length of an entire career, what the actual hell, patents should last for 3-7 years at the most, if they exist at all (they're mostly an outdated, garbage relic system that doesn't encourage innovation anymore and is simply used to keep smaller players out of markets)