Ultrahuman spent much of last year working its way back onto American shelves. Oura now believes it has found a second route to push the Indian startup back out, landing a complaint in a Texas federal court on Thursday, October 22. Two patents are at issue, across the ring’s shape and its internals, and Oura wants cash damages plus an injunction against further US sales of Ring Pro. SVTronics, a Texas manufacturer accused of building the device in Plano under Ultrahuman’s direction, also appears on the docket.
Why the redesign no longer settles it
Oura’s first win, at the US International Trade Commission, led to a ban on selling Ultrahuman’s Ring Air. The company rebuilt the thing as the Ring Pro and launched it in February; a March customs ruling then reopened the border.
Scope is the sticking point: that ruling reached only the patent fought over the first time. The new case leans on design patent D804,471 plus utility patent 12,769,363, a fresh grant describing a ring whose guts are a curved battery, circuit board, magnets and sensors; Oura received it on October 20, forty-eight hours before suing.
The reply from Bengaluru
Ultrahuman co-founder and chief executive Mohit Kumar told TechCrunch the company is confident in the product and will answer the claims in court, saying the suit relies on different patents, one of them brand new, and noting that nothing yet blocks the Ring Pro from sale. Oura says the startup has copied it before knowingly, cites the 2025 ruling, and says the redesign never fixed the problem. Similar claims have gone against Samsung, RingConn, Circular and Zepp Health; the last two settled and pay royalties. Ring shipments worldwide should hit 4.9 million units this year, up 12.8 percent, and about 6.3 million by 2030, IDC forecasts.
