March 07, 2025
The Federal Circuit handed Apple a significant victory Friday in a dispute that might have led to a ban on imports of its smartwatches, affirming that a competing company's heart monitor patents are invalid and vacating a conflicting U.S. International Trade Commission decision that found the watches infringed those patents.
July 12, 2024
In a case that could lead to a U.S. International Trade Commission import ban on the Apple Watch amid a patent dispute with AliveCor, Federal Circuit judges asked both companies Friday why a patent office tribunal that invalidated the patents didn't see evidence from the ITC case.
January 29, 2024
A Silicon Valley medical device startup that wants the U.S. International Trade Commission to ban certain health-related features from being employed by new Apple Watches is arguing that this dispute is important to ensure that other startups that don't make products can litigate their grievances with tech giants at the Washington, D.C.-based commission.
November 29, 2023
A small Silicon Valley medical device startup's efforts to use the U.S. International Trade Commission to litigate allegations that Apple Inc. pilfered health tracking software for its smartwatches have drawn supportive amicus briefs from a handful of trade groups, a billionaire venture capitalist and a Japanese manufacturer of health monitors.
November 20, 2023
The U.S. International Trade Commission shot back at Apple's attempts to characterize how much legal protection is given to the company's prospectively patent-infringing watches, telling the Federal Circuit that the tech giant is stretching "public health and welfare factors too far."
August 15, 2023
A tech industry lobby, an industry-funded patent challenger, a medical department chair at UC San Francisco, and a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins have all signed onto Apple's legal campaign to persuade a federal appeals court to overturn a trade commission holding that could ban some Apple Watch imports because of patent infringement complaints.
August 08, 2023
The U.S. International Trade Commission's holding that Apple Watch imports should be banned for infringing another company's patents risks turning the agency into a standard patent litigation forum, rather than one meant to rein in harmful trade practices, Apple Inc. has told the Federal Circuit.
June 27, 2023
Medical device maker AliveCor says the Federal Circuit should undo a U.S. International Trade Commission finding that the Apple Watch did not infringe one of its heart monitor patents, the latest in a larger patent fight between the parties.