‘Weak’ Bid to Pause Apple Watch Import Ban Should Fail, ITC Says

The US International Trade Commission urged an appeals court to reject Apple Inc.'s “weak and unconvincing” arguments supporting a bid to block the trade agency’s enforcement of a ban on certain Apple Watch imports for the duration of Apple’s appeal, according to a court filing.

The tech giant’s “arguments amount to little more than an indisputably adjudicated infringer requesting permission to continue infringing the asserted patents,” the ITC said in its opposition to Apple’s motion for a stay, filed Wednesday in the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Apple failed to demonstrate “the two most important factors in ...