Masimo called the verdict a \u201csignificant win in our ongoing efforts to protect our innovations and intellectual property,\u201d in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n Best picks for you<\/p>\n \n (Image credit: Future)<\/p>\n An Apple spokesperson told Reuters that the company plans to appeal the verdict.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “The single patent in this case expired in 2022, and is specific to historic patient monitoring technology from decades ago,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n Tom\u2019s Guide has reached out to Apple for comment on the Masimo lawsuit and the ITC investigation and will update this piece if the company responds.<\/p>\n How we got here<\/p>\n \n (Image credit: Masimo)<\/p>\n The California lawsuit is only one front in an ongoing war between Apple and Masimo that began in 2021 with an initial lawsuit that ended in a mistrial in 2023<\/a>. Despite that, in December of 2023, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) upheld a ruling<\/a> stating that Apple violated Masimo\u2019s patent, which partially halted sales of the Apple Watch 9<\/a> and Apple Watch Ultra 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n At the time, Apple disabled the blood-oxygen technology<\/a> in its watches to avoid the ban and launched a new version in August with approval from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.<\/p>\n In the last year, it seemed like legal decisions were going Apple\u2019s way. In October of 2024, Apple won a patent lawsuit<\/a> (and $250) from Masimo, though it didn\u2019t directly affect the banned blood oxygen feature. In that lawsuit, a Delaware jury ruled that Masimo had infringed on two Apple patents.<\/p>\n Later in March of this year, a different lawsuit between Apple and AliveCor ended with Apple in the clear. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a previous verdict<\/a>, concluding that all three of AliveCor\u2019s patents were unpatentable.<\/p>\n Don’t miss these<\/p>\n Apple vs the ITC<\/p>\n \n (Image credit: Future)<\/p>\n Separately, on Friday, the ITC decided to hold a new proceeding to determine whether or not imports of Apple Watches should be banned as part of the patent dispute. The ITC released a report <\/a>indicating that the tribunal would investigate whether Apple redesigned its smartwatches to get around a previous important ban issued by the ITC<\/a>, and if that redesign still infringed on Masimo\u2019s patents.<\/p>\n The ITC is set to conclude the investigation within the next six months.<\/p>\n The last ban was instituted in 2023<\/a> when the ITC ruled that Apple infringed on Masimo\u2019s pulse oximetry patent. This is what led to the blocked sales<\/a> of the Series 9 and Ultra 2 watches.<\/p>\n If upheld, Apple could face another ban that would block the sale of its Apple Watches. It’s unclear from the ITC report if any future action would affect current Apple smartwatches, including the recently released Apple Watch Series 11<\/a>, Apple Watch SE 3<\/a> and Apple Watch Ultra 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n For now, despite rumors<\/a>, Apple has avoided putting blood-oxygen tracking in its latest smartwatches.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n <\/a><\/p>\n Follow Tom’s Guide on Google News<\/a> and add us as a preferred source<\/a> to get our up-to-date news, analysis, and reviews in your feeds. <\/p>\n More from Tom’s Guide<\/p>\n Today’s best Apple Watch 11, Apple Watch SE 3 and Apple Watch Ultra 3 deals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday (Nov. 14), Apple was hit with bad news concerning its Apple Watches from two different sources:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[49,48,195,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-299352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-gadgets","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Apple](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/zEMEAwenTtMTBHUUf7Hyr5.jpg\")
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