Apple defeats AliveCor bid to block U.S. Apple Watch imports

On Friday, Apple successfully persuaded a U.S. appeals court to sustain its victory over medical device company AliveCor in a patent dispute that might have resulted in an import ban on Apple Watches. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the decision, declaring AliveCor’s heart-rate monitoring patents invalid—patents that AliveCor claimed Apple had infringed. This ruling overturned a prior decision by a U.S. trade tribunal, which had found Apple in violation of A