Apple Watch: the White House will not intervene in the decision of the ITC

Finally, the suspension of the procedure of Final Determination ended in an outright cancellation. A triumphant press release from AliveCor announces that the White House (and therefore Joe Biden) has decided not to block the decision of the ITC (International Trade Commission) stipulating that the Apple Watch did infringe AliveCor patents, patents relating to the ECG integrated into the toquante. At worst for Apple, the ITC’s decision could lead to a ban on the sale of the Apple Watch on American soil, but this hypothesis remains fanciful for the moment: the ITC had already specified that it would not no decision to ban imports as long as legal or administrative proceedings are active.

And it did: Apple took the case to the US Patent Appeal Board (a division of the USPTO), and all of the patents involved in AliveCor’s complaint have been invalidated by this commission! AliveCor appealed this decision. Despite AliveCor’s ranting following the White House’s decision, the ban on the sale of Apple Watch is therefore not, far from it, on the agenda.