Apple Inc. is facing a lawsuit called Omni MedSci, which claims that Apple Watch's heart rate sensor patent infringes its patented technology.
Omni MedSci claimed to have met with Apple from 2014 to 2016, but the relevant discussions did not proceed. Therefore, they filed a lawsuit in Texas and demanded that the company’s related products be subject to a ban and demanded compensation. loss.
This type of patent litigation is common in the United States. Omni MedSci is owned by Mohammed Islam. This person owns six companies and holds several related patents in optics and laser technology. His patent holding company Cheetah Omni The company has filed lawsuits against companies including Fujitsu, Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei, Nokia, and Siemens. The company was described as a 'typical patent company' by a news site in Detroit in 2015.
Apple officially launched the Apple Watch in 2015. Since its introduction, the company has built-in heart rate sensors, and it is an important selling point of its products. It can be used to detect many early heart rate symptoms of health problems, such as atrial fibrillation. Early symptoms of diabetes, hypertension, etc.
