Apple asks the U.S. Court docket of Attraction to overturn ITC import ban on sure Apple Watch fashions

Apple claimed that Masimo’s patents had been invalid and that Masimo, opposite to its testimony on the time the unique case was heard again in 2021, was not planning to provide its personal smartwatch with a pulse oximeter. Within the courtroom submitting, Apple wrote, “The Worldwide Commerce Fee exceeded its statutory authority by issuing an injunction in a case the place the requisite home business’ was non-existent.” Apple stated that the ITC ruling was primarily based on patent judgments which are “substantively faulty” and a few of these have been since invalidated. 

Within the submitting, Apple claims that lower than every week after Apple unveiled the Apple Watch Collection 6, Masimo “dismissed a twelve-year-old patent utility and utilized for brand new claims manifestly written to ensnare Apple’s new Watch. The outcome was the ’502 and ’648 patents at problem, which (as ITC Chairman Johanson defined in dissent) embody “late added claims … added by modification years after the unique precedence date” that “attain past any disclosure pretty described by the specification and figures.”

As for the declare by Masimo that it was about to provide its personal smartwatch, Apple says that Masimo’s criticism was primarily based on CAD drawings of a “Masimo Watch” and ultimately Masimo admitted that no such machine existed.

Apple’s hopes are expressed within the conclusion to its submitting: “CONCLUSION. The Fee’s resolution needs to be reversed or, at minimal, vacated and remanded.”