Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Wednesday, January 21st, 2026.

I'm your host, Chance Miller.

We are sponsored this week by Stuff, the Clean and Powerful To-D-List application.

Leading off the day, the International Trade Commission has opened a patent investigation into the Apple Watch over its fall detection feature.

In recent years, the Apple Watch has faced multiple patent challenges related to its health and medical features,

including disputes with Alive Corps over the heart rate features and Mossimo over the blood oxygen features.

The Mossimo dispute the blood oxygen features.

The Mossimo dispute even led to an Apple Watch import ban in the United States.

Apple was able to reverse that ban, though the dispute is still ongoing.

Now, a Texas-based company called Uniliware is targeting Apple as well as several other wearable companies.

It targets all electronic watches with the capability to detect when a user has suffered a fall,

which in practice means smart watches from Apple, Samsung, Google, and Garmin.

Unilaiware says that these fall detection features violate multiple of their own patents.

Unilaiware is requesting two key remedies from the ITC, a limited exclusion order that would ban imports of the accused devices,

and cease and desist orders that would prohibit the sale of infringing devices already in the United States.

If successful, this could result in a ban similar to the one imposed on the Apple Watch in the Massimo case.

According to the ITC's documents, respondents now have 20 days to respond or risk a default judgment.

But there's no reason right now to think that Unileware will get exactly what it wants.

This case is still incredibly early and we're waiting on the responses from companies including

Apple and Samsung.

In the meantime, there is little risk of the Apple Watch actually being banned in the United States

yet again, as this case will need to run its course before any stringent enforcement like that will actually happen.

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