The company filed a lawsuit in the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, USA, enumerating several patents on measuring, monitoring physiological properties, and describing a scheme for measuring the human body's blood parameters through LED sensors. Omni MedSci claims to be from 2014 to 2016. They had met with Apple every year, but the related discussions did not go on. Therefore, they filed a lawsuit in Texas and demanded that the company’s related products be subject to a ban on sales and demanded compensation for losses.
This kind of patent litigation is very 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. Islam, owner of Omni MedSci, also stated that he had built a wearable device that monitored blood glucose through laser technology in 2015 and had discussions with Apple.