The next Galaxy Unpacked would be very close, and could be held next July; This would be a step forward from other years, just as the Galaxy S24 was advanced. Samsung’s goal is clear: to surprise the competition with its new foldable phones and new smart watches.
But the new Galaxy Watch won’t be the only surprise the company is preparing. The launch of the Galaxy Ring, the smart ring presented in Barcelona at the beginning of the year and which would already be close to stores, should also be made official. However, there are still some details to be resolved, particularly legal ones.
And the last thing Samsung wants is to get into legal trouble as soon as its smart ring launches; In other words, a repeat of what he suffered with Apple’s lawsuits over its Galaxy phones. On this occasion, Samsung fears that one of the largest in the sector, Oura, will file a lawsuit that blocks the sale of the Galaxy Ring.
This is not an exaggerated fear. In the past, Oura has sued companies that have launched smart rings, such as Ultrahuman, Circular and RingConn, claiming it has the patents needed to make them a reality. In all cases, the complaint was filed before these manufacturers could launch their devices on the American market.
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Samsung attacked preemptively, file a complaint before Oura can file it as soon as the Galaxy Ring is released. But the goal of this legal challenge is not to prove that Oura copied Samsung, quite the contrary: to demonstrate that Samsung did not copy Oura and that it can sell its Galaxy Ring without any legal blockage.
Oura is one of the benchmarks in the sector of young smart rings, with advanced functions despite its small size that allow it to detect the reasons for stress, for example. During the presentation of the Galaxy Ring in February, Oura released a press release in which had more than 100 issued patents and 270 others requested; a clear message that he planned to take action.
Concretely, the problem lies in five patents filed by Oura, which, according to Samsung, are too generic and describe features “common to virtually all smart rings”. Therefore, Samsung hopes that the judge will agree and consider that Oura cannot enforce these patents in a lawsuit; either because they are not precise enough or because they are not valid.
