Apple<\/a>‘s updated Apple Watches should be banned \u200cas part of a patent dispute with medical monitoring technology company Masimo.<\/p>\nThe ITC said in an \u200corder that it would investigate whether Apple Watches that were redesigned to circumvent a previous import ban issued by the commission still infringe Masimo patents covering blood-oxygen measurement technology.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The commission set a target to finish the investigation within six months. Spokespeople \u2060for Apple and Masimo did \u200cnot immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n
The case is part of a contentious, multi-front patent fight between Apple and \u200dMasimo, an Irvine, California-based medical monitoring technology company that has accused the tech giant of hiring away its employees to steal its pulse-oximetry innovations.<\/p>\n
The commission blocked imports \u200bof Apple’s Series 9 and Ultra 2 smartwatches in 2023 after finding \u200cthat Masimo’s patents were infringed. Apple removed blood-oxygen reading technology from its watches to avoid the ban, but reintroduced an updated version of the technology in August with approval from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.<\/p>\n
Masimo has sued Customs over the approval, while Apple has separately challenged the ITC’\u2060s ban at a federal appeals court.<\/p>\n
Masimo separately \u200bsued Apple in California federal court for patent \u200binfringement and trade-secret theft. A jury in Santa Ana is now weighing Masimo’s allegations that Apple owes as much \u200das $749 million in \u2060damages for infringing Masimo’s patents.<\/p>\n
A California judge declared a mistrial in Masimo’s trade-secret case against Apple in 2023 after a jury failed to reach \u2060a unanimous verdict. Apple won a minimal $250 verdict against Masimo in Delaware last year in a \u200ccountersuit over allegations that Masimo’s smartwatches infringe two Apple design patents.<\/p>\n
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