Apple Seeks Obama Reprieve on IPhone Import Ban
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Apple Inc. may learn as early as today whether President Barack Obama and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman will intervene to let it keep selling all versions of its iPhone 4 and iPad 2 in the U.S.
Obama and Froman have until midnight Washington time on Aug. 4 to overturn an import ban imposed by the U.S. International Trade Commission, which found June 4 that some older Apple devices infringed a Samsung Electronics Co. patent for a way data is transmitted.