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Masimo Sues Customs Over Apple Watch's Restored Oxygen Tool


US Customs and Border Protection unlawfully let Apple Inc. reactivate a blood-oxygen tracking feature on Apple Watches that infringes patents for the technology, Masimo Corp. said in a federal lawsuit.

Masimo said that was the first time it learned CBP had quietly reversed course two weeks earlier in an ex parte ruling, despite the agency’s policy that such decisions normally require both sides to be heard. At that event, Cook highlighted $2.5 billion for Corning glass production and presented the president with a gold-plated plaque —gestures Bloomberg Intelligence analysts said could “soften the White House’s ire” over Apple’s reliance on India for iPhone assembly. The company called CBP’s ex parte decision “an extraordinary departure” from its mandate and a violation of its own policy requiring adversarial proceedings absent “exceptional circumstances.”

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