Samsung is looking to protect itsGalaxy Ringfrom becoming sweep up in letters patent wars by pre - emptively process the makers of the merchandise ’s main rival .
forward of the Galaxy Ring launching , which thelawsuitsays will be around August , Samsung is seek a pre - emptive legal opinion againstOura , the company that makes the market leading smart closed chain .
Samsung wants a judge to make a opinion that Samsung ’s product does n’t infringe on any of Oura ’s patented engineering science prior to the launch of the Galaxy Ring .
The way Samsung sees it , Oura ’s legal department is a little too litigious , having antecedently litigate challenger like Ultrahuman andCircularfor preceived patent infringements .
“ Oura ’s actions and public statement demonstrate that Oura will continue insist patent infringement against other starter into the U.S. chic tintinnabulation market place , including Samsung , ” the lawsuit read ( viaThe Verge )
“ Oura ’s immediate response to the announcement of the Galaxy Ring was to charge to the purported long suit of its intellectual property portfolio . ”
Indeed , Oura has channelize out that it has been granted 100 patent of invention and has requested patents for a further 270 . Oura had antecedently suggest it would be monitoring the engineering science Samsung brought to the tablet for possible violation upon its IP .
Samsung is look to deflect the possibleness of those legal entanglements by getting the ball roll before the Galaxy Ring ’s dismission .
The patent reads : “ This activeness arises from Oura ’s pattern of indiscriminate assertion of patent infringement against any and all competitors in the smart ring market , and its statements confirm its intentions to put forward its patents against all competitors in the market . Oura develops , manufactures , and sells the Oura Ring , and it also purports to own certain patents relating to impertinent ring technology . Each and every time a major challenger has modernise and/or free a merchandise that contend in the smart hoop market , Oura has filed a letters patent infringement action against that competitor . ”
The lawsuit says it plans to “ sell the Galaxy Ring in the United States in or around August . ”
