Oura Wants Samsung Patents Axed in Texas Smart Ring Dispute

Samsung Electronics Co.’s patents protecting smart ring products are not eligible for protection, Oura Health Oy told a Texas federal judge.

Samsung’s US Patent Nos. 7,662,065, 9,008,973, and 12,324,655 concern abstract ideas involving “generic computer processes,” Oura said in a Feb. 27 motion to dismiss filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Oura said getting a user’s resting heart rate and using wearable sensors to detect heart rate are not inventive concepts.

Oura argued, in a motion also filed on Feb. 27, that Samsung never accused the health-data firm of practicing the ...