An administrative tribunal rightly invalidated three patents covering a way to detect irregular heartbeats Apple Inc. has been accused of infringing, the Federal Circuit ruled Friday, preventing a trade panel from enforcing a ban on certain Apple Watch imports.

AliveCor has lost its appeal, meaning there won’t be another ITC import ban over the Apple Watch’s EKG feature.

Apple today scored another victory in the ongoing lawsuit that AliveCor levied against it in 2021, with the federal appeals court confirming

At the end of 2023 and the start of 2024, Apple wasn’t able to sell either its Apple Watch Series 9 or its flagship Apple Watch Ultra 2 in any of its stores in the United States. A patent dispute with the company Masimo over the use of its blood oxygen sensor meant that Apple was temporarily blocked from selling either wearable,