Apple Appeals Federal Import and Sales Ban in Bid to Keep Selling Watches

While Apple’s request earlier this week for an interim stay of federal orders to stop selling its watches is hardly an emergency, according to Masimo, a federal court has temporarily stayed the ban.  

Apple’s filing came after President Biden left in place a decision from the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) that the blood oxygen-sensing technology used in Apple’s watches violated a patent held by med-tech company Masimo.

According to Masimo’s reply, Apple – a company that reported $394.33 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2022 – did not need “any emergency relief for multiple reasons, including because there is no emergency.” Apple decided on its own to stop selling the contended watches in December, well before the ban would have gone into effect following a presidential review, Masimo pointed out.

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