How does the President have the power to veto a trade commission ruling?

Factual Questions
1

This refers to the Apple watch ban the ITC put into affect on patent infringement grounds.

FIrst, I’ll avoid the fact that I don’t understand why this is in the executive branch, where I thought, patent infringement cases were part of the judicial branch.

My question is that I’m unfamiliar with the President having “veto” power on such a ruling. I’m only familiar with ‘veto’ associated with legislation, along with the concept that something becomes law if it just sits on the president’s desk for x days.

Can someone explain this veto concept for an executive branch agency decision? and if this is any different than any other number of executive agency decisions? Can the president effectively tell any agency in the executive that a particular ruling is shit and he has the power to change it?

Confused by this (new to me) concept.

2

Congress authorized the President to overturn certain ITC rulings on policy grounds when it codified the relevant statute. So it’s not precisely a “veto” but statutory authority to overturn the Commission’s rulings when the President opposes them on the basis of policy. See 19 USC 1337(j)(2). It strikes me too as an unusual procedure.

3

I expect the reason for allowing the President to overturn certain ITC rulings is that they impact foreign relations. Managing foreign relations is a prerogative of the President.

4

That’s a good point. It may even be necessary to maintain the Constitutionality of the ITC and the statute.

5

This is not a conventional patent infringement case. This ITC enforcement mechanism is sort of a parallel process to a lawsuit for infringement - you might even call it a loophole. It has several limitations - for instance, the ITC cannot award damages for infringement - but obviously, it does have the power to block imports of devices manufactured abroad which violate a US patent. It also has a reputation for moving faster than the courts.