Registry

Patent litigations

Federal district court cases and ITC 337 investigations on the DEPLOY registry. ITC matters carry a cross-reference to the underlying regulatory filing per the reciprocal-seam discipline (the same legal event lives in both the patent-litigation graph and the regulatory-filings graph; the registry preserves both edges).

• oura-v-ultrahuman-itcdecided

  Oura's ITC Section 337 action against Ultrahuman over smart-ring technology, resulting in an exclusion order against the Ultrahuman Ring AIR (the ITC issues exclusion, not money damages).

  itc · cross-references regulatory filing

• oura-v-ringconn-itcsettled

  Oura's ITC Section 337 action against RingConn over smart-ring technology, resolved by a confidential settlement.

  itc

• oura-v-amazfit-itcpending

  Oura's ITC Section 337 investigation involving the Amazfit Helio smart ring (Zepp Health), pending at the Commission.

  itc · reported

• 337-TA-1363decided

  Ouster filed a Section 337 ITC complaint (337-TA-1363) and a companion D.Del. action against Hesai Group on April 11, 2023, asserting five digital-lidar patents: US 11,175,405 (spinning lidar micro-optics), 11,178,381, 11,190,750, 11,287,515, and 11,422,236. Ouster sought an import ban on Hesai lidar sensors. On June 22, 2023 Hesai moved to terminate, arguing that Velodyne Lidar - which merged with Ouster in February 2023 - had entered a 2020 Litigation Settlement and Patent Cross-License Agreement with Hesai Photonics requiring arbitration of patent disputes. The ITC ALJ granted Hesai's motion on August 24, 2023; the Commission affirmed on October 10, 2023. The companion Delaware case was dismissed in March 2025 without any financial settlement or injunctive relief. The substantive question of infringement was never adjudicated; Ouster was bound by Velodyne's prior contractual obligation.

  itc · filed 2023-04-11

• 337-TA-1276decided

  Masimo's Section 337 complaint at the ITC over light-based pulse-oximetry. The Commission found the Apple Watch infringed claims 24 and 30 of Masimo US 10,945,648 and issued a limited exclusion order, leading Apple to disable the blood-oxygen feature on imported Series 9 / Ultra 2 watches. The ITC awards exclusion, not money damages.

  itc · filed 2021-06-29 · cross-references regulatory filing

• 3:17-cv-00939 (N.D. Cal.)settled

  Waymo's trade-secret and patent suit against Uber over self-driving lidar, centered on engineer Anthony Levandowski, who left Google's self-driving project, founded Otto, and joined Uber when it acquired Otto in 2016 (see acquisition uber-acquires-otto-2016). Settled February 2018 for roughly $245M in Uber equity (a 0.34% stake) plus an agreement not to use Waymo technology. Waymo had publicly CLAIMED damages of around $1.8-2.6B; the verified outcome is the ~$245M equity settlement, not the claimed figure.

  district_court · filed 2017-02-23