Fitbit Can Seek to Knock Jawbone Out of U.S., Agency Says

Fitbit Inc. won a new round in its tit-for-tat legal fight with Jawbone Inc. Thursday after a U.S. trade agency revived patent-infringement claims regarding the wearable fitness devices, increasing the headaches for long-beleaguered Jawbone.

A trade judge was wrong to say two Fitbit patents covered ideas that weren’t eligible for legal protection, the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington said in an posted on its electronic docket. It upheld the judge’s findings that a third Fitbit patent is invalid.