There are three different cases. The ITC case is just one of them. The two others are in regular federal courts.
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Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 No Longer Available From U.S. Online Store
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There are three different cases. The ITC case is just one of them. The two others are in regular federal courts.
I bought 3 a couple days ago. Now maybe I should say screw giving them as gifts and instead price gouge someone willing to pay more for it right before Christmas. Anyone want an Ultra 2 for $1,500 + $250 handling fee?
Way to get in the holiday spirit
If they software disable features, it would impact all of them out there
Apple is trying things like this but will need the approval of ITC/US Customs that such a change, make them clear of the import and sales bans.
Or just pick up the phone this week and call this guy and settle it? How much could he possibly want? Apple is losing half a billion every week these things are off the market.
It's the single reason so many good ideas simply can't work.
I am curious who is going around and downvoting every single comment that suggests Apple just pay the patent and move on. Apple Watch sales are something like half a billion per week. Apple can't possible prefer that to just paying up.
Problem is I don’t think it’s gonna be that simple because there is gonna be corporate bureaucracy involved. this was never going away with a phone call.
Pretty sure some of them are also setting up multiple accounts.
because that will result in a MASSIVE class action.
Ignore the downvotes, a downvote doesn't hold any value without a written explanation anyway. Maybe the downvote is from a person who doesn't like a user's avatar? We'll never know without more information.
It is clearly IP theft. Apple even hired some of Masimo's employees. This is not tolling. Masimo invented the technology.
What does not surprise me at all is the very poor reporting on this. Not one of these so-called "journalists" has bothered to read and explain the actual patent. They just keep copying/pasting the same. story. It would be good to know exactly what it is that Masimo invented. Is it the fundamental idea of using green LEDs or was it some way of processing the data? Apple only has a chance of a software fix if the patent is very narrow and specific.
Third party retailers can sell existing stock. Apple has halted sales online and in its brick and mortar locations.
You should be able to track it down from the info in the article.
Apple will find a better way to do it
This is what I want to see.
Apple portrayed this as their tech, when in fact they poached engineers from Masimo that then used their knowledge to create an Apple version of protected tech. Shame that it came to this.
No, because every Apple Watch has a serial number and even an IMEI number.
Apple could just make the software update happen on watches with serial numbers which are imported/sold after December 25th if allowed by the ITC.