Apple Seeks Rehearing of Decision Affirming ITC’s 2023 Watch Ban

Apple Inc. asked the full Federal Circuit to reconsider a precedential ruling that preserved the US International Trade Commission’s 2023 ban on imports of some Apple Watch models.

In a combined petition filed Monday, Apple said the March 19 decision affirming the ITC’s exclusion order in Masimo Corp.'s patent dispute with the tech giant over blood-oxygen features in some Apple Watches improperly expanded the agency’s domestic-industry test.

Apple is seeking a rehearing by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s three-judge panel as well as rehearing en banc.

The ruling raised “precedent-setting questions of exceptional importance,” Apple said, ...