The White House announced that it is closely following developments in the situation related to the judicial ruling taken by the US International Trade Commission regarding the ban on the sale and trade of Apple smart watches, the Apple Watch 9 and the Apple Watch Ultra 2, against the backdrop of its loss of the lawsuit filed against it by the medical technology company Masimo.
And according to BloombergThe White House’s follow-up of the issue comes in light of US President Joe Biden’s ability to intervene to stop the decision to ban the sale of Apple Watches in the United States, as he still has the opportunity to do so until December 25.
Apple explained a few days ago that it is preparing to implement the court ruling banning the sale of its watches by December 21 through its online store, and December 24 through its stores, as well as various other retailers.
Regarding Apple’s announcement of its readiness to ban, Masimo CEO Joey Kiani believes that Apple’s statement is an attempt on its part to pressure the US President to intervene and stop the decision, indicating that what the iPhone giant did was not a mere coincidence, as he considers it a “deliberate violation of intellectual property rights,” according to His statements In a television interview with Bloomberg.
The subject of dispute
The feature that Masimo sued Apple for is the technology behind the blood oxygen sensor, which the American company introduced on board its watch families starting with the Apple Watch 6 and later, but the ban will only apply to the Apple Watch 9 and Apple Watch. Ultra 2.
Apple also faced an accusation, under the Masimo lawsuit, that it sought approximately 20 employees of the medical technology company to include them in the ranks of its employees, by raising their salaries at rates that sometimes reached double, to be the nucleus of developing a large number of benefits provided through its smart watch family, some of which It explicitly infringed patents owned by Massimo, Reuters reported in October.
During his intervention with Bloomberg TV, Kayani pointed out that Apple did not need to include employees from Masimo, which was already open to cooperating with the American company to provide advanced medical capabilities and benefits to Apple Watch users.
Masimo’s manager also confirmed that his company is still ready to settle the lawsuit, and said sarcastically: “Dancing tango requires the approval of two people,” indicating that Apple has not communicated about this.
Software solution
Apple confirmed that it will work to make “all possible attempts legally and technically to resell its smart watches in the American market as soon as possible,” and indeed its engineers are currently working on developing a software update to change the way the features of measuring blood oxygen saturation work and the methodology for displaying information, in an effort to avoid a ban on the sale. Its hours in the American market are due to a judicial decision, according to a Bloomberg report.
However, Masimo’s manager rejected the possibility that the software update could be a solution to the crisis, pointing out that the patents registered in his company’s name include hardware components and software systems, which Apple exploited to provide the advantages of measuring the level of oxygen in the blood of users of its smart watches.
Kayani highlighted that banning the sale of Apple smart watches in the United States would have been impossible if the watches were manufactured locally, but it has become possible to implement the ban given that Apple Watch watches are manufactured outside US borders.
2023-12-20 13:58:39
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