Apple Watch Import Ban Takes Effect After Biden Admin Declines to Veto

Published on December 26, 2023

The Biden administration declined to veto an import ban on certain Apple smartwatches involved in a health care patent infringement case, allowing the ban to take effect. In October, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) upheld a ruling in favor of two Irvine, California-based companies, Masimo Corp. and Cercacor Laboratories, which sued Apple in 2021 over smartwatches featuring a blood oxygen sensor that can read the wearer’s pulse. In the lawsuit brought before ITC, Masimo accused Apple of hiring away its employees, stealing trade secrets related to its light-based pulse oximetry technology and incorporating it into the Apple Watch Series 6 smartwatch released in 2020. Masimo originally sued Apple in 2020, but a jury trial on Masimo’s allegations ended with a mistrial in May....

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