Apple Blood Oxygen Feature Workaround Sparks Fresh Masimo Lawsuit

Medical exertion institution Masimo connected Wednesday filed a suit against U.S. Customs and Border Protection successful which it challenged the agency's determination to let Apple to reconstruct humor oxygen monitoring to its Apple Watch models (via Bloomberg Law).


In a complaint filed Wednesday successful the US District Court for the District of Columbia, Masimo said that Customs acted unlawfully erstwhile it ruled connected August 1 that Apple tin import watches with pulse oximetry exertion – a reversal of the agency's determination from past twelvemonth – without notifying Masimo. Masimo said it lone discovered the ruling connected August 14, erstwhile Apple publically announced it would beryllium reintroducing the pulse oximetry functionality done a bundle update.

The aesculapian instrumentality shaper claims Customs and Border Protection exceeded its authorization erstwhile it issued the ruling permitting Apple's redesigned approach. Apple's workaround offloads humor oxygen calculations from the Apple Watch to a paired iPhone, wherever it performs akin functionality to what the ITC primitively judged to person infringed Masimo's patents.

Masimo is seeking a impermanent restraining bid and preliminary injunction to artifact the Customs decision. "CBP's relation is to enforce ITC exclusion orders, not to make loopholes that render them ineffective," Masimo said.

The quality originates from an International Trade Commission ruling successful December 2023 that recovered Apple's humor oxygen sensors infringed Masimo's patents, starring to an import prohibition connected Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 models that person the diagnostic enabled.

Apple paused sales successful the U.S. for respective days earlier resuming them connected January 18, 2024. The Series 9 and Ultra 2 models past went backmost connected the marketplace without humor oxygen monitoring, up until Apple's merchandise of iOS 18.6.1 and watchOS 11.6.1 past week, which shifted the feature's calculations to paired iPhones.
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