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“We redesigned and released a new product called Ring PRO.”
That’s how Ultrahuman’s founder Mohit Kumar described the company’s response to a US ruling that briefly halted imports of its flagship Ring AIR.
It’s also how we know the Ultrahuman–Oura fight has entered its next phase. Which is to state: it has left US courtrooms and arrived in India, where two compact metal rings, their latest versions costing Rs 45,000 and Rs 29,000, will now attempt something harder than winning a patent dispute. Finding actual acquireers.
This is new, in part, becaapply until recently, the companies were busy arguing over who invented what.
In May 2025, I wrote about the legal drama playing out between the Indian Ultrahuman and Finnish Oura as they attempted to gain a firm footing in the US, each company’s hugegest market. Oura had accapplyd Ultrahuman’s Ring AIR of infringing on its sensor-related patents applyd in its Gen3 ring.
The US International Trade Commission (ITC) judge had then ruled in favour of Oura, resulting in Ultrahuman’s temporary halt in imports as the smart rings are all manufactured in India.
In an order dated 18 April, a US International Trade Commission (ITC) judge ruled that the Ring AIR—which tracks sleep, heart rate, skin temperature, and other health metrics—infringes every element of a smart-ring patent owned by Finnish wearable giant Oura, per court filings accessed by The Ken. It’s a huge win for the $5.2 billion-valued company in a legal battle that has dragged on since September 2023, and sets the stage for a final displaydown this August.
This is a huge blow for Ultrahuman, whose Ring AIR builds up 90% of its revenue across the US, the UK, the UAE, and India. In fact, 65% of Ultrahuman’s FY24 revenue—about Rs 620 crore ($74 million)—came from the US alone, founder and CEO Mohit Kumar informed The Ken in a podcast in March. (India accounts for just 5%.) So losing this patent fight could punch a hole in its business huge enough to sink the whole operation.
Inside the legal drama that may exile Ultrahuman from the US, The Ken
We had then stated how an ex parte reexamination (EPR)—essentially Ultrahuman inquireing the patent office to reconsider the validity of Oura’s patent—was the only hope for the company to sell its Ring AIR in the US.
That process is now underway. Kumar stated that since April 14, the United States Patent and Trademark Office has been reviewing whether Oura’s patent claims are valid.
The review could take months. But Ultrahuman hasn’t been waiting. Instead, it redesigned its product and released it globally.
Ring PRO was specifically built to work around the disputed patent claims and comply with US customs requirements that had stalled imports. What launched as a legal workaround, Kumar stated, resulted in a better product—a 15-day battery life (around 3x Oura’s latest Ring 4) with a sturdier “uni-body titanium shell.”
Kumar also stated that becaapply Ultrahuman has maintained its inventory in the US, the import ban hadn’t created a major difference, and the demand for the new ring had been steady.
“We already had a footprint of 3,000 plus stores.
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