Apple has found itself stuck with legal issues again. Now, President Biden will be asked to review whether the Apple Watch should be banned or not due to alleged patent rights violations.
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After many weeks of efforts by the Chinese firm to regain the trust of the American government, the Department of Commerce has finally lifted the ban it had imposed on the company's imports.
According to a report by Bloomberg, Qualcomm is preparing to ask the United States International Trade Commission for an import ban on iPhones. Apple recently refused to pay royalties to Qualcomm.
The Obama Administration has unexpectedly overruled a decision by the ITC to ban the import of older Apple iOS devices into the US, in the first such reversal of an ITC ban since 1987.
The United States International Trade Commission issued a ruling today that bans the importing of older iPhones and iPads into the US because they were found to be violating one of Samsung's patents.
The full panel of the US International Trade Commission has decided not to overrule a previous decision by an ITC judge, who ruled Microsoft's Xbox 360 can continue to be imported into the country.
An ITC judge struck down a lawsuit by Motorola that looked to ban the Xbox 360 console from being imported into the United States due to patents on short-range wireless technology.
The International Trade Commission has sent the Motorola patent infringement case against Microsoft's Xbox 360 console back to the judge, delaying a possible US import ban on the Xbox 360.
A judge has recommended that the International Trade Commission place a ban of importing the 4 GB and 250 GB versions of the Xbox 360 S consoles into the US for violating Motorola patents.