Apple sues AliveCor over patents as Apple Watch import ban deadline looms - Reuters

(Reuters) - Apple Inc sued medical-device shaper AliveCor Inc successful San Francisco national tribunal connected Friday, claiming AliveCor's wearable bosom monitors violated its patent rights.

Apple's complaint follows lawsuits by AliveCor against the tech elephantine successful national tribunal and astatine the U.S. International Trade Commission, which is presently deciding whether to prohibition imports of Apple Watches based connected AliveCor's patent-infringement claims.

Apple said successful Friday's ailment that AliveCor filed the lawsuits successful effect to "its ain failures successful the market," and said it wants to "set the grounds consecutive arsenic to who is the existent pioneer" of the technology.

An ITC justice ruled for AliveCor successful a preliminary determination successful June, and the commission's last ruling connected the import prohibition is owed Dec. 12. In a connection connected Monday, AliveCor called the caller suit "a hopeless last-ditch effort by Apple to bully AliveCor into submission conscionable days earlier the ITC decision."

Representatives for Apple did not instantly respond to a petition for remark connected the lawsuit.

AliveCor sued Apple successful West Texas successful 2020 and astatine the ITC past twelvemonth for infringing patents related to AliveCor's KardiaBand, an Apple Watch accessory that monitors a user's bosom rate, detects irregularities, and performs an electrocardiogram (ECG) to place imaginable bosom issues similar atrial fibrillation.

Mountain View, California-based AliveCor stopped selling the KardiaBand successful 2018 aft Apple launched its ain ECG feature. AliveCor said Apple copied its exertion starting successful Series 4 Apple Watches.

AliveCor besides sued Apple past twelvemonth successful California for allegedly monopolizing the U.S. marketplace for Apple Watch heart-rate monitoring apps, successful a lawsuit that is inactive ongoing.

Apple's caller suit said AliveCor's devices copied Apple advancements related to heart-rate sensors successful physics devices, health-data aggregation, and different personal-health innovations. Apple said it developed its exertion arsenic aboriginal arsenic 2008, 2 years earlier AliveCor was founded.

"AliveCor's litigation run is thing much than an effort to siphon from the occurrence of Apple technologies it did not invent, each the portion selling products that trust connected foundational ECG innovations that Apple patented years earlier AliveCor came to be," Apple said.

Apple asked the tribunal for wealth damages and an bid blocking income of infringing AliveCor products.

The lawsuit is Apple Inc v. AliveCor Inc, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, No. 5:22-cv-07608.

For Apple: Adam Alper, Akshay Deoras, Michael De Vries, Leslie Schmidt and Kat Li of Kirkland & Ellis

For AliveCor: not available

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