Federal Circuit Rejects Apple’s Rehearing Bid Over Infringing Apple Watch

( July 23, 2026, 3:48 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied Apple Inc.’s petition for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc, leaving in place a panel’s March finding that the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) did not err when it held that Apple violated the Tariff Act by importing and selling Apple Watch models that infringed blood oxygenation patents held by other technology entities....