Apple Watch Patent Rulings Reflect Force, Failings of Import Ban
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- Publish Date:
- March 21, 2026
- Author(s):
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- Yasiejko, Christopher
- Source:
- Bloomberg Law
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Summary
“This is the system operating as it is intended to operate,” said Mark Lemley, a Stanford Law School professor. If a respondent “can effectively design around” an infringed design patent, as the trade judge held Apple did, “that is the sort of permissible competition we want to encourage.”
That may limit the ITC’s remedy, Lemley added, “but that doesn’t mean it was ineffective.”
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