Philips North America LLC v. Fitbit LLC

  1. December 18, 2023

    Fed. Circ. Sends Philips' Row With Fitbit Back To Lower Court

    The Philips brand stumbled Monday in its attempts to get the Federal Circuit to look at a ruling out of Massachusetts federal court on one of its patents, long-asserted against the Fitbit brand, that found the language couldn't hold up in court.

  2. September 02, 2022

    Judge Says Philips Health Monitor Patent Invalid In Fitbit Row

    A Massachusetts federal judge has found that a Philips health monitoring patent was invalid in a dispute with Fitbit, finding the patent-at-issue was too abstract to warrant patent protection.

  3. November 19, 2021

    Philips Can't Add New Fitbit Products To Patent Suit

    A Massachusetts federal judge said Friday that Philips North America LLC waited too long before attempting to add patent infringement contentions aimed at four new Fitbit products, declining to allow it leave to amend its suit against the Google LLC unit.

  4. August 19, 2021

    IP Forecast: Ferring Seeks Sanctions Against Jones Day

    Ferring Pharmaceuticals will argue next week that Jones Day should be sanctioned for sparking a patent trial that never should have happened. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.

  5. August 10, 2021

    Fitbit Can't Get Mass. Judge To Toss Phillips Patent Suit

    A Massachusetts federal judge Tuesday said that it's too early to throw out a patent suit that Philips North America LLC lodged against Google LLC's Fitbit unit, finding that it remains plausible that some of the asserted fitness-tracking patents contain an inventive concept.

  6. July 23, 2021

    Mass. Judge Axes Indefinite Philips Patent In Fitbit Suit

    A Massachusetts federal judge invalidated as indefinite a Philips health-monitoring patent challenged by Fitbit Inc., despite finding that "a reasonably bright high-school student" could figure out the patent's bounds.

  7. December 11, 2019

    Fitbit Says Philips' Health-Tracking IP Fails Under Alice

    Fitness tracker company Fitbit is doubling down on its bid to toss out a lawsuit brought by Philips over Philips' patented health-tracking technology, saying that the patent claims cover abstract ideas under the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice test.

  8. July 22, 2019

    Fitbit, Garmin Stole Philips' Health Tracker Tech, Suits Allege

    Fitness tracker titans Fitbit and Garmin only have the know-how to make their wearable, health-tracking products because both companies have infringed patents owned by Philips, according to two lawsuits the electronics giant filed Monday.