Apple<\/a>‘s updated Apple Watches should be banned as part of a \u200cpatent dispute with medical monitoring technology company Masimo.<\/p>\nThe ITC said in an order that it would investigate \u200cwhether 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.<\/p>\n
Apple said the case was a meritless attempt to block its smartwatches’\u2060 blood oxygen feature and \u200cthat Masimo had copied its watch design in order to bring the complaint.<\/p>\n
APPLE, MASIMO FIGHTING ON MULTIPLE FRONTS<\/p>\n
The case is part of a \u200dcontentious, multi-front patent fight between Apple and Masimo, an Irvine, California-based medical monitoring technology company that has accused the tech company of hiring away its employees to steal \u200bits pulse-oximetry innovations.<\/p>\n
The commission blocked imports of Apple’s Series 9 and Ultra \u200c2 smartwatches in 2023 after finding that 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 \u2060ITC’s ban at a federal appeals court.<\/p>\n
Masimo has \u200balso sued Apple in California federal court for patent \u200binfringement and trade-secret theft. A jury in Santa Ana determined separately on Friday that Apple owes $634 million in damages for infringing a Masimo \u200dpatent.<\/p>\n
A California judge declared a \u2060mistrial in Masimo’s trade-secret case against Apple in 2023 after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict. Apple won a minimal $250 verdict against Masimo in \u2060Delaware last year in a countersuit over allegations that Masimo’s smartwatches infringe two Apple design patents.<\/p>\n
(\u200cReporting by Blake Brittain in Washington; Additional reporting by Dheeraj Kumar \u200cin BengaluruEditing by Rod Nickel and Shri Navaratnam)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Blake Brittain (Reuters) -The U.S. International Trade Commission decided on Friday to hold a new proceeding to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3160],"tags":[1662,96306,1685,182960,53,182961,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-577538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-apple-watches","10":"tag-gadgets","11":"tag-masimo","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-technology-company","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115568738707731404","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}