Appl Insider

AliveCor, a company that markets consumer ECG hardware and services, is taking its patent infringement suit against Apple a step further with a complaint to the U.S. International Trade Commission.The mobile ECG firm is seeking an import ban on all infringing Apple Watch models including Apple Watch Series 4 and Apple Watch Series 5. Apple’s latest Apple Watch Series 6 was not named in an earlier lawsuit on which the complaint is based, though it can be surmised that the device is in AliveCor’s crosshairs.AliveCor in a statement released Tuesday said filing in the ITC “is one step, among others, AliveCor is taking to obtain relief for Apple’s intentional copying of AliveCor’s patented technology— including the ability to take an ECG reading on the Apple Watch, and to perform heartrate analysis— as well as Apple’s efforts to eliminate AliveCor as competition in the heartrate analysis market for the Apple Watch.” Read more…

Source: Appl Insider