Oura escalates Ultrahuman patent dispute with more patents and accusations of editing Wikipedia page to accuse Oura of patent trolling

Context: Smart-ring maker Oura won a limited exclusion order (U.S. import ban) against Ultrahuman from the United States International Trade Commission (USITC or ITC) (August 22, 2025 ip fray article), and has achieved the dismissal of Ultrahuman’s Indian countersuit over the suppression of material facts (September 1, 2025 ip fray article).

What’s new: Yesterday (September 3, 2025), Oura filed another U.S. patent infringement complaint against Ultrahuman, suing its rival over five more U.S. patents in the Eastern District of Texas. The above-mentioned Indian dismissal is attached to — and findings by the ITC concerning the credibility of Ultrahuman’s CEO are cited in — the new complaint in order to destroy Ultrahuman’s credibility. Oura furthermore attached correspondence with the Wikimedia Foundation, alleging that Ultrahuman

• created one fake account to edit the Wikipedia page on Oura in unfavorable ways Oura describes as “vandalism” (such as suggesting that Oura is a “patent troll” and deleting some of its “accoldates and innovations”) and
• another fake account to make it look like Oura CEO Tom Hale was editing that same page so it would reflect more favorably on Oura.

Direct impact: Oura is clearly stepping up the pressure on Ultrahuman and impeding its growth, but there may be jurisdictions that are relevant to Ultrahuman’s business and in which Oura does not own patents (or at least not a sufficiently strong portfolio) to make an impact there. The dispute is now getting almost personal, and Ultrahuman is starting to come across as desperate.

Wider ramifications: Corporate character assassinations are not unheard of in U.S. patent litigation, though judges typically limit the ability of litigants to raise allegations in front of the jury that are too far removed from the substance of a patent infringement action.