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Due to a US Worldwide Commerce Fee ruling, Apple can not promote its Apple Watch Sequence 9 and Apple Watch Extremely 2 in the US due to a patent dispute.
The ITC banned Apple from importing the affected watches into the US, and American Apple shops have already pulled the product from their cabinets. However third-party shops can nonetheless promote their remaining inventory, together with massive field retailers.
Older fashions of the Apple Watch, in addition to the cheaper Apple Watch SE, weren’t a part of the ruling and stay in inventory. The ban solely contains the Apple Watch Sequence 6 and later and all fashions of Apple Watch Extremely.
As of Tuesday afternoon, Greatest Purchase was nonetheless promoting the Apple Watch in a number of colours, beginning at $399. It additionally was nonetheless promoting the Apple Watch Extremely 1 and a couple of. The digital superstore confirmed it’s nonetheless promoting the affected watches.
Goal is starting to promote out of sure colours of the Apple Watch Sequence 9. CNN has reached out to Goal about whether or not it has seen an uptick in demand within the watches. Equally, sure colours of the Apple Watch Extremely 2 are additionally bought out.
Walmart can also be nonetheless promoting the 2 newest fashions.
On Amazon as of Tuesday afternoon, 4 colours had been left in inventory for Apple Watch Sequence 9 with a case and sport loop.
In October, the US ITC dominated that Apple violated a pulse oximeter patent held by Masimo, a medical gadget maker. The heart beat oximeter makes use of light-based expertise to learn blood oxygen ranges.
Masimo CEO Joe Kiani previously told CNN he believes Apple infringed on his firm’s patents. In October 2022, Apple had filed two patent infringement lawsuits towards Masimo.
Apple has already filed an attraction to the Federal Circuit courtroom.
The corporate mentioned Tuesday it was pursuing each authorized and technical choices to renew imports of essentially the most superior watches, together with submitting a redesign of the Sequence 9 and Extremely 2 watches for U.S. Customs approval.
– CNN’s Clare Duffy and David Goldman contributed to this report.