The U.S. International Trade Commission decided on Friday to hold a new proceeding to determine whether imports of Apple’s updated Apple Watches should be banned as part of a patent dispute with medical monitoring technology company Masimo.
The ITC said in an order that it would investigate whether Apple Watches that were redesigned to circumvent a previous import ban issued by the commission still infringe Masimo patents covering blood-oxygen measurement technology.
The commission set a target to finish the investigation within six months….
