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Apple readies Apple Watch Series 9 ban workaround by disabling blood oxygen functionality
The U.S. Customs agency has handed down its decision on whether Apple’s proposed redesign of the Apple Watch Series 9...
Customs and Border Protection decided that Apple’s redesign falls outside the scope of” the ITC ruling. Essentially, and unsurprisingly, this means that U.S. Customs has found the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 do not infringe on Masimo patents so long as they don’t “contain pulse oximetry features.” This won’t impact existing owners of an Apple Watch with pulse oximetry features. Part 177 (in a portion it did not identify as confidential), Apple explained “that its Redesigned Watch Products definitively (i) do not contain pulse oximetry functionality…” Because Apple has maintained that certain information in the EOE proceeding is confidential, Masimo does not provide a copy of the decision with this letter.
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