- A US appeals court granted Apple’s emergency request to pause a US sales ban on some of its watches.
- The Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 were pulled from the company’s online and physical stores.
- Apple has appealed the import ban, which is tied to a patent dispute with medical-device company Masimo.
Apple just scored a big break.
It can continue to import and sell its latest Apple Watch models in the US — for now.
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted on Wednesday Apple’s emergency request to temporarily pause an import ban on the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 models in the US from going into effect, Reuters earlier reported.
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The import ban, which led Apple to pull the impacted watch models from its online and physical stores in recent days, stemmed from a patent dispute between the company and the medical-device maker Masimo.
The International Trade Commission had ruled that Apple had violated multiple Masimo patents related to blood oxygen monitoring.
Apple is in the process of appealing that ruling, which US President Joe Biden declined to veto.
Apple has earned itself some more time as the appeals court weighs whether to grant Apple a longer-term pause on the ruling.
But for now, it looks like Tim Cook just found one more present under the Christmas tree — and it was a big one.
