By Blake Brittain

(Reuters) -The U.S. International Trade Commission decided on Friday to hold a new proceeding to determine whether imports of Apple’s updated Apple Watches should be banned as part of a patent dispute with medical monitoring technology company Masimo.

The ITC said in an order that it would investigate whether Apple Watches that were redesigned to circumvent a previous import ban issued by the commission still infringe Masimo patents covering blood-oxygen measurement technology.

The commission set a target to finish the investigation within six months. Spokespeople for Apple and Masimo did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The case is part of a contentious, multi-front patent fight between Apple and Masimo, an Irvine, California-based medical monitoring

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