UnaliWear Drops ITC and District Court Complaints on Smartwatch Competitors

Maker of the Kanega Medical Alert Watch UnaliWear, Inc. has filed suit against Alphabet (Google) (7:25-cv-00571) and Apple (7:25-cv-00570) in the Western District of Texas, against Garmin (2:25-cv-11772) in the Central District of California, and against Samsung (2:25-cv-01214) in the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiff has filed a companion action (337-TA-3865) before the International Trade Commission (ITC), identifying the same four companies as proposed respondents. The same two patents are asserted in each complaint, infringement allegations targeting “certain wearable devices and components thereof, such as smartwatches with fall detection capabilities”. In the cover letter accompanying its ITC complaint, UnaliWear argues that any remedial orders resulting from the investigation would not prove too burdensome, pointing (in part) to Apple’s redesign “within a matter of months” of its Watches to remove features “adjudicated by the Commission to be infringing patents in another Investigation”.