While Apple's connected watch has already existed for many years, it seemed quite obvious to the uninitiated that the technologies embedded within the Apple Watch were native, “made in Cupertino”. And yet, Mohammed Islam does not share this opinion. The one who is employed by the University of Michigan, is described by his peers as “the perfect student when it comes to patents”, he already has six companies and no less than 150 invention patents, which he uses to recurrently to lead trials against large firms such as Fujitsu, Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei, Nokia and Siemens.
In this new business for him, Islam explains that he has four patents around heart rate sensor technology for connected watches and thatApple used them to design the Apple Watch. With his company Omni MedSci, Islam has indeed been in discussions with Apple to lead a partnership, in 2014 and 2016 recognizes the multinational. But ultimately, due to lack of agreement, the two parties were never able to do business, and Apple built its heart rate sensor within its watch on its own.
According to Islam, Apple used his company's patents to design its sensor, in short, a violation of intellectual property.
On the side of the Cupertino firm, the company had first requested that the trial not take place, because Islam is an employee of the University of Michigan, and in fact, the patents that he filed with the American intellectual property agency were the right of the educational establishment. The latter is also ready to cede the rights to use these famous patents to Apple.
But ultimately the decision of the American courts worked against the Cupertino company which will have to settle this matter during a trial. Apple is attacked fairly routinely for intellectual property violations,several companies have made this field their specialtyand enrich themselves by winning legal actions against multinationals.
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