Apple’s Damages Exposure Cut as Masimo Secrets Case Goes to Jury

Apple Inc. would have to pay a maximum of $1.85 billion if it’s found liable of illegally profiting from a competitor’s technology, a little more than half the $3.1 billion Masimo Corp. initially sought.

A federal judge in Santa Ana, California, dismissed business and marketing claims against the iPhone maker at the end of a three-week trial, leaving for the jury to decide only if Apple improperly used trade secrets related to a blood-oxygen monitoring sensor in its Apple Watch.

Apple poached Masimo employees to learn about its technology after Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook nixed an internal proposal to ...