So Mayo we're recording this on Thursday morning. It's about 9 a.m. Eastern time and by the time most people are listening to this barring any last minute developments the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 will be

gone from Apple's website. You could say the clock is literally ticking. The most

accurate time piece in the world. Down to 50

milliseconds this watch is about to be banned. So this this starts years ago

Apple's long-running patent dispute with the medical device company, Mossimo,

and they've been kind of battling it out in multiple different court cases, with Mossimo arguing that Apple infringes on some of its patents related to

blood oxygen technology. And of course the Apple Watch added blood oxygen features with the

Series 6 in 2020. So this has been going on for a

while and it's kind of culminated in this ruling from the International Trade

Commission that was first handed down in January, saying

that Apple did indeed infringe on two of Mossimo's patents covering five different instances

of patent infringement. So that was January then in October the ITC upheld its decision and basically

kicked the can to the Biden administration starting the clock on a 60-day presidential review period, during which the

Biden administration can step in and veto the ITC's decision.

But so far, again, it's Thursday, December December 21st the Biden administration has opted not to do that and

their deadline for doing that would be December 25th so Merry Christmas to Apple

So that kind of leaves us where we are right now 5th, so Merry Christmas to Apple.

So that kind of leaves us where we are right now.

Apple will remove the Series 9 and the Ultra 2

from its website today at 3 PM Eastern time and from its retail stores at the end of the day on

December 24th. And this is only in the US. Only in the US, correct?

Yeah. Europeans and other countries, the watches are still on sale, but US is gone from the website by the time this episode is out.

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