( November 13, 2026, 1:39 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a Nov. 12 response to Apple Inc.’s petition for a writ of certiorari, the U.S. government tells the U.S. Supreme Court that it should deny the technology giant’s petition in which it argues that a Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel’s opinion may have weakened a requirement that limits the power of the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) when the panel found that the 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. The government says that research and development labor can be used to establish a domestic industry and it rejects Apple’s argument that the Federal Circuit supplied reasoning not used by the ITC....