Apple wins appeal to temporarily pause Apple Watch ban

A federal appeals court granted Apple’s request to temporarily pause a federal trade commission’s ban on some of its Apple smartwatches amid an ongoing patent dispute with medical technology firm Masimo. Apple on Tuesday filed an emergency request with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to halt the ban, which bars the import and sale of the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 because of the U.S. International Trade Commission’s decision that the smartwatches infringed on Masimo’s patented blood ...