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Skechers Kizik Patent Dispute: Both Sides Claim Victory
The Skechers Kizik patent dispute over hands-free shoes ends in a Munich ruling both sides call a win. Here is what the UPC ordered and what comes next.
Skechers and Kizik both claimed victory this week after judges at the Unified Patent Court in Munich ruled that a narrow set of Skechers step-in shoes infringes a patent owned by Kizik’s parent company, and ordered Skechers to stop making, distributing and selling those styles in 18 European countries.
The ruling was issued on Oct. 17 and confirmed through company statements over the following days. The Skechers Kizik patent dispute began in 2025, when Fast IP, LLC, the intellectual property holding company of HandsFree Labs, filed at the Munich court against Skechers’ Hands Free Slip-Ins range. The complaint also named Skechers’ German, Swiss, Belgian, Italian and French operations.
Hands-free footwear has become an increasingly important category for Skechers since the company introduced Slip-ins in December 2021. Skechers describes itself as the third-largest footwear company in the world. Kizik sells on the same premise: a shoe that goes on without hands.
What The Munich Court Actually Ordered
The panel did not hand Kizik everything it asked for. According to a copy of the decision reviewed by Footwear News, the injunction covers only sneakers built with a specific design combining elastic side panels and a heel stabilizer. Claims against certain other Skechers styles named in the original complaint were rejected.
The order binds Skechers across the 18 EU states participating in the court’s system: Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Finland, France, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and Sweden. Damages were also awarded. Either side can appeal.
When the case was filed in August 2025, the disputed amount carried a preliminary estimate of about 1 million euros, with 200,000 euros in provisional damages requested, according to FashionUnited. Set against Skechers’ $9.42 billion sale to 3G Capital, the money is minor. The injunction is the prize.
Why Both Sides Read The Skechers Kizik Patent Dispute As A Win
Both readings have support in the ruling, which is why the two statements do not contradict each other so much as describe different halves of the same document.
Gareth Hosford, chief executive of HandsFree Labs and Kizik, said the outcome “shows that the system works,” adding: “We’re pleased the court recognized the strength of our patent, and we’ll keep defending the technology our team built.
Skechers, in its own statement, counted the styles. “Skechers won on three of the four styles, with the fourth being a minor and commercially insignificant style for Skechers,” the company said in a release carried by Business Wire. It also quoted the court’s language that Kizik’s infringement claims were “largely unfounded.”
Both claims can hold at once. A finding of infringement on one commercially small style is still a finding of infringement, and it still carries a sales ban in the bloc. A rejection on three is still a rejection.
The Patent Counts Do Not Match
The two companies describe their patent portfolios in figures that have shifted over the life of the case. In July 2025, Skechers said it held more than 140 hands-free utility and design patents worldwide. By its October 2026 statement, that figure had become more than 300. HandsFree Labs, in the period when it filed, described holding more than 200 patents and applications worldwide.
Neither figure is independently verified in the material the companies released. The gap matters because Skechers has said it will “aggressively challenge both the validity of the patents and the infringement claims.” A validity fight turns on which specific claims survive review, not on portfolio totals cited in press releases.
What The Order Leaves Untouched
The injunction’s reach stops at the court’s participating states. Skechers says it sells in approximately 180 countries and territories through department and specialty stores, its website and more than 5,300 own retail stores. The banned styles can still be made and sold outside the 18-state bloc, subject to whatever other courts decide.
The complaint named Skechers’ Swiss arm, and Switzerland is not among the 18 states covered by the judgment. The enforcement map is drawn by treaty membership, not by where a company’s subsidiaries sit.
For buyers and distributors in Africa, Asia and Latin America, nothing in the Munich order changes the availability of the affected styles. What changes is European inventory. Kizik’s original complaint sought a recall of product placed on the market since July 9, 2025; the companies’ statements on the judgment do not specify how the court treated that request.
The American Case Is Still Open
The European action was a follow-on. HandsFree Labs filed a US suit on July 24, 2025, in the federal district court for the Eastern District of Texas, and that litigation remains ongoing. Skechers has argued its footwear uses its own technology and that Kizik’s patents are invalid.
Skechers president Michael Greenberg said in 2025 that the timing of the claims followed the 3G Capital deal: “We believe that, after all these years of silence, the true motivation for this lawsuit might be found right on the face of Kizik’s complaint, where they state that they are looking for a share of the $9.42 billion being paid for Skechers, money Kizik did not earn and does not deserve.”
That is an allegation by Skechers, not a court finding. No judgment has addressed motive, and Kizik has not conceded the point in any statement reviewed here.
What To Watch
Three markers will show whether the Skechers Kizik patent dispute changes the hands-free market or only its paperwork. First, whether Skechers appeals the Munich order and seeks a stay of the injunction while an appeal runs. Second, how the Texas case treats patent validity, since a European finding does not bind a US court. Third, whether the ruling pulls other step-in sellers into the Unified Patent Court’s reach. The court’s 18-state jurisdiction is now a tested venue for footwear patents, and both companies have said they intend to keep enforcing and challenging.
Frequently Asked Questions (Skechers Kizik patent dispute)
Did Skechers win or lose the Munich patent case?
Both outcomes are in the same ruling. Judges found that a limited set of Skechers step-in shoes infringed a HandsFree Labs patent and ordered those styles off the European market, while rejecting claims against other Skechers styles named in the original complaint. Skechers says it won on three of four styles; HandsFree Labs says the court recognized the strength of its patent.
Which countries does the ruling cover?
The judgment applies to the 18 EU states participating in the Unified Patent Court system, including Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Portugal and Sweden. Switzerland, where Skechers has a named subsidiary, is not among them.
Can Skechers still sell the affected shoes outside Europe?
Yes. The order is limited to the court’s 18 participating states. Skechers says it sells in roughly 180 countries and territories, so distribution outside that bloc is unaffected by this judgment, though the separate US lawsuit remains open.
Is the US lawsuit between Kizik and Skechers resolved?
No. HandsFree Labs filed in the Eastern District of Texas on July 24, 2025, and that case is still ongoing. A European ruling does not bind a US court, and Skechers has said it will challenge both the validity of the patents and the infringement claims.
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Hit the Slopes: Snow Splits Big Bear and Colorado
Skiers hoping to hit the slopes face a split season: Big Bear’s lowest snow in decades, Colorado’s fresh powder, and $20,000 jackets.
Skiers hoping to hit the slopes this season are confronting two incompatible pictures of the same winter. In Southern California’s Big Bear, four of 33 runs were open in early February and snowfall sat at its lowest level in nearly seven decades. In Colorado, Silverton Mountain collected 20 inches from a single cold front.
Both accounts are recent, both lean on resort figures and government weather data, and neither cancels the other. Together they describe an industry whose fortunes are set locally by weather, while the retail layer built on top of it — jackets, goggles and knitwear sold before anyone reaches a lift — is priced as though snow is guaranteed.
What The Snow Reports Actually Confirm
The California picture is documented. According to KQED, reporting on Tuesday 3 February 2026, rain and unusually warm temperatures had dominated the season in the San Bernardino Mountains. Average daytime highs hovered around 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and National Weather Service data cited in the report put this winter’s snowfall at the lowest in nearly seven decades.
Julian Villalobos, a ski instructor at Snow Summit, described the surface in the trade’s own vocabulary. “With this kind of weather right around 1:00pm, 2:00pm, it turns to mashed potatoes,” he said. “No one wants to ride mashed potatoes. It’s horrible.” Mashed potatoes is ski jargon for lumpy, wet snow.
The downstream effect shows up in rental shops. Mario Magliozzi, a manager at Goldsmith’s Sports in Big Bear, said the wall of bindings that empties on busy days had stayed full: “We have had days where we run out of equipment. That is not happening this season.” The Big Bear Chamber of Commerce told KQED that lodging bookings were down by at least a quarter — an estimate from a business group, not an audited figure.
Colorado’s reporting runs the other way. CBS News Colorado recorded Silverton Mountain’s 20 inches as the state’s biggest storm gain, followed by Purgatory Resort in Durango with 12, Monarch Mountain with 11 and Sunlight Mountain with 10. Breckenridge opened its first lift-served laps at the treeline. Skiers who did hit the slopes there found Loveland Ski Area promising in a release that more snow was expected “today and tomorrow” — a forecast at the time of publication, not a measured total.
What It Costs To Hit The Slopes This Season
Against that uneven snow record, the retail cycle has moved on schedule. WWD’s alpine shopping guide describes a season nodding to the 1980s across ski, snowboard and après-ski styles, with novelty motifs, bright colours, slick silhouettes and fur accents.
The price spread inside that single edit is the story. At the top: a Brunello Cucinelli shearling jacket at $20,000, a Giorgio Armani Neve lurex jacquard jacket at $8,400 with matching trousers at $9,200, Gucci ski goggles at $1,390, a Saint Laurent bag at $4,500, a Moncler Grenoble puffer at $2,795 and a Snow Goose by Canada Goose merino knit puffer at $2,650.
Further down the same list sit the working pieces: Mountain Hardwear DrySpell 70D 3L ripstop pants at $390, a We Norwegians merino sweater at $360, a Toni Sailer sweater at $350, Moon Boot boots at $320 and a Lele Sadoughi beanie at $168. A $1,195 Perfect Moment down ski jacket and a $930 Moncler Grenoble neoprene ski suit sit in between.
What the guide does not contain is any evidence of sell-through. It is a shopping edit, not a sales report, and none of the sources reviewed here publish unit figures for these items. Whether a $20,000 jacket found a buyer in a season when Big Bear’s rental racks went unused is unknown from the available record.
Who Gets To Hit The Slopes, And With What Support
Access is the other half of the season, and here the reporting is more concrete. NBC10 Boston profiled Vermont Adaptive, described as the state’s first disabled skiing programme, which has hosted more than 5,700 outings this year alone.
Katie Ahern, an adaptive athlete living with multiple sclerosis, said the terrain is the same even when the technique is not. “Being outside is important for me,” she said. Instructor Andrew Kimpton put the case plainly: “It, in many ways, shows everyone that everyone can do what they need to do with different equipment and maybe different supports, whatever that might be.”
Vermont Adaptive said it has no riders in this year’s Paralympic Games, which begin on 6 March, though athletes who grew up in the programme are hoping to qualify. That is an ambition, not a team selection.
In western North Carolina, WXII12 reported that Sugar Mountain Ski Resort expected thousands of visitors over a long holiday weekend, potentially its busiest of the season, with the season running to March. Marketing director Kimberley Jochl said registration had been upgraded for the children’s programmes — the Sugar Bear school for skiers aged 5 to 10 and the Polar Bear school for snowboarders aged 7 to 14.
What To Watch
Three things are worth tracking. First, whether the forecast snow reaches Colorado resorts as predicted, since expectations reported on a Saturday are not the same as measured totals. Second, whether Big Bear’s lodging bookings recover before the season closes. Third, which adaptive athletes are actually named to Paralympic teams, as opposed to aiming for them.
One gap deserves stating plainly. None of the reports reviewed here covers a resort outside the United States. There is no snowpack data for the Alps, no figures for Japan or the Southern Hemisphere, and no reporting on African ski operations. Anyone outside North America planning to hit the slopes this season will find, in this set of sources, no verified conditions to plan around — only a demonstration of how sharply the same winter can divide.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much snow did Colorado ski resorts receive?
According to CBS News Colorado, Silverton Mountain received 20 inches from a cold front, Purgatory Resort in Durango received 12 inches, Monarch Mountain 11 and Sunlight Mountain 10. Breckenridge opened its first lift-served laps at the treeline.
Why is the Big Bear ski season struggling?
KQED reported on 3 February 2026 that rain and unusually warm temperatures had dominated the season. Only four of 33 runs were open at Snow Summit, average daytime highs sat near 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and National Weather Service data showed the lowest snowfall in nearly seven decades.
What does Vermont Adaptive offer skiers with disabilities?
Vermont Adaptive, described by NBC10 Boston as the state’s first disabled skiing programme, has hosted more than 5,700 outings this year. It pairs athletes with instructors and adapted equipment; the organisation said it has no riders in this year’s Paralympic Games, though alumni are hoping to qualify.
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US Hails Progress in Venezuela Transition Talks
Washington calls the first US flight to Caracas in seven years proof of progress in Venezuela transition talks. The election stage has not begun.
The first direct commercial flight between the United States and Venezuela in more than seven years landed in Caracas on Thursday, and Washington presented it as proof of momentum in the Venezuela transition talks — a process whose final stage, an actual transfer of power through elections, has not begun.
American Airlines Flight 3599 from Miami touched down at Simón Bolívar international airport at 1.15pm local time, The Guardian reported. The last US commercial flight left Caracas in March 2019, when relations collapsed during Donald Trump’s first term.
José Freig, the carrier’s vice-president of international operations, called it ‘a historic day’ before handing Venezuela’s transport minister, Jacqueline Faría, a model of one of his company’s planes. On the runway, Venezuelan passengers queued to board the return leg to Florida.
The US chargé d’affaires in Caracas, John Barrett, went further, calling the route ‘a direct result’ of a three-phase plan for post-Maduro Venezuela: stabilising the country, rebooting its economy, and ‘eventually securing a political transition back towards democracy. ‘We are only just getting started,’ he said.
What The Miami Flight Actually Confirms
The flight is evidence of phase two. Commercial ties are being rebuilt at speed, nearly four months after US special forces seized Nicolás Maduro in the capital and Delcy Rodríguez, his former vice-president, took power with Washington’s blessing.
It is not evidence that phase three has started. No election date has been published, and the official who would help organise one has publicly ruled it out for now. ‘It’s not time for elections,’ interior minister Diosdado Cabello said on the eve of the landing.
Faría framed the route in trade language: ‘This country wants to connect itself to the world.’ Félix Plasencia, Venezuela’s top diplomat in Washington, said it ‘should be the first one of many’.
Where The Venezuela Transition Talks Stand
The gap between the two governments’ language and the calendar is the story. Barrett describes a trajectory toward democracy. Rodríguez’s administration, according to the Guardian, appears in no rush to hold fresh elections.
John Feeley, a former US ambassador to Panama, described the arrangement bluntly as ‘a viceroyship’ — ‘a powerful king-like figure that extracts rent from overseas territories’, with Rodríguez ensuring ‘the king or the crown, or in this case Washington, gets its due’.
Feeley said he would not foreclose the possibility that the intervention ends up benefiting Venezuelans. He also said: ‘I’m pessimistic because of the track record of the Trump team and Donald Trump himself and his own attitudes towards democracy.’
Earlier in the year, Trump said he had held a ‘very good’ phone call with Rodríguez covering oil, minerals, trade and national security, writing on Truth Social that ‘we are making tremendous progress, as we help Venezuela stabilize and recover’, Kurdistan24 reported. No policy details accompanied that call.
Oil, Gold And What Has Not Been Published
The economic track has moved fastest and with the least transparency. Trump said Washington had struck a deal giving US interests control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan reserves — more than double American reserves, in his account, and enough to ‘substantially lower Gas Prices’. BBC News reported that Rodríguez put the term at 25 years, covering 17 fields, targeting 1.5 million barrels a day, with $100bn in investment and $209bn in taxes for Venezuela.
A US official told CBS News, the BBC’s US partner, that Washington would hold 55% of a joint venture with an ‘experienced private operator’, which was granted a 100-year concession. The text of the agreement has not been published.
David Goldwyn, president of Goldwyn Global Strategies, told Reuters there was ‘no precedent’ for the US government leasing Venezuelan oil fields and that it was ‘hard to see how this kind of arrangement would accelerate investment at any material scale’, citing political uncertainty, a weak power grid and limited export capacity.
Rachel Ziemba of the Center for a New American Security told the BBC the deal was ‘unlikely to have any material impact on global oil supplies in the next month or even the next year’. Venezuela’s crude is heavy and sour, costlier to refine than the light, sweet grades the US produces.
Britain, meanwhile, said in September it would upgrade its mission in Caracas to ambassador level, with Latin America minister Chris Elmore citing ‘an important opportunity’ for democracy and UK backing for ‘US-backed transition talks between the interim government and parts of the opposition’, Hürriyet Daily News reported. Venezuelan parties are separately negotiating the return of gold reserves frozen in London.
Why The Sequence Matters Beyond Caracas
The BBC noted the oil arrangement appears wider in scope than the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority’s control of Iraqi oil revenue after 2003. That comparison is the useful one: resource control can be arranged in weeks; legitimising a government takes institutions and a vote.
The sequence also explains why the Venezuela transition talks draw attention far beyond South America. Sanctions relief, diplomatic recognition and access to resources are moving in the same package, negotiated between two capitals, with allies such as Britain adjusting their posture afterwards. Governments that have spent years bargaining over sanctions and frozen assets will recognise the mechanics, even where the commodity differs.
The runway ceremony cost little and can be reversed. An electoral calendar cannot be improvised as easily.
What To Watch
Four checkpoints will separate progress from presentation. Whether the oil agreement’s full text is published. Whether the Chevron and Halliburton investment talks reported by the Wall Street Journal convert into signed contracts. Whether Cabello’s line on elections changes. And whether a British ambassador actually arrives in Caracas.
Until an electoral calendar appears, the Venezuela transition talks remain a framework with a flight schedule and no date for a vote.
Frequently Asked Questions
What did the US actually announce about the Venezuela transition talks?
The US chargé d’affaires in Caracas, John Barrett, said the first direct commercial flight in more than seven years was ‘a direct result’ of a three-phase plan: stabilising Venezuela, rebooting its economy, and eventually securing a political transition back towards democracy. He gave no timetable for the third phase, and no election date has been published.
Has Venezuela agreed to hold elections?
Not publicly. Interior minister Diosdado Cabello said on the eve of the flight that ‘it’s not time for elections’. The Guardian reported that Delcy Rodríguez’s administration appears in no rush to hold fresh elections. No electoral calendar has been announced in the reporting reviewed.
Why does the oil deal matter if the reserves are not being pumped yet?
Trump said the deal covers more than 65 billion barrels and would more than double US reserves. Analysts quoted by the BBC and Reuters said the text has not been published, there is no precedent for a US government lease of Venezuelan fields, and the arrangement is unlikely to affect global oil supplies in the next month or even the next year, given Venezuela’s heavy sour crude, weak grid and limited export capacity.
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Oura Sues Ultrahuman Again: Inside the Ring Pro Patent Fight
Oura sues Ultrahuman again over Ring Pro patents in a Texas federal court, threatening the Indian startup’s US market comeback.
Mohit Kumar spent most of this year making an engineering argument. On Thursday, a federal court in Texas turned it into a legal one.
Oura filed a patent infringement complaint seeking to block US sales of Ultrahuman’s Ring Pro, the redesigned ring that carried Kumar’s Bengaluru company back into the American market only months after an import ban pushed it out. It is the second time Oura sues Ultrahuman in a US court, and the first aimed at the device the startup built specifically to get back in.
The complaint names Ultrahuman and SVTronics, a Plano, Texas electronics manufacturer that Oura says builds the Ring Pro under Ultrahuman’s direction and control. Oura is seeking monetary damages and a permanent injunction.
Kumar’s position is now double-edged. He runs a company valued at about $365 million after a $70 million raise in September that drew Qualcomm Ventures and Labcorp. He is also the defendant in a case that could remove his flagship product from the largest smart-ring market outside his home base.
Why Oura Sues Ultrahuman Again, Two Days After A New Patent
The timing is the detail worth pausing on. The complaint cites two Oura patents: D804,471, a design patent, and 12,769,363, which covers a ring architecture built around a curved battery, circuit board, magnets and sensors. The second was issued to Oura on 20 October, two days before the company filed suit.
Oura argues that the Customs decision which let the Ring Pro into the US covered only the patent at issue in the earlier dispute, not these two. “Ultrahuman has a history of copying Oura’s innovations, as demonstrated by the 2025 ITC ruling against the company,” an Oura spokesperson told TechCrunch. “Ultrahuman introduced a redesigned ring but failed to address continued infringement of Oura’s patents.”
Ultrahuman did not respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment. The company has not publicly answered the new filing.
From The Ring Air Ban To Ring Pro Clearance
The dispute dates to 2023, when Oura first sued Ultrahuman over the Ring Air. Oura then brought a case at the US International Trade Commission in 2024 and won a ruling in August 2025, which blocked imports of the Ring Air and its components. Wired reported that the ITC finding rested on a hardware patent covering layered internal and external components, a description broad enough to reach most rings on the market.
Ultrahuman’s answer was a redesign. It unveiled the Ring Pro in February, began selling globally, and in March received a favourable ruling from US Customs and Border Protection. CNET reported the clearance opened preorders at $349 for the first 1,000 buyers and $399 afterwards, with a charging case at $100 or $479 as a bundle. The ring claims 15 days of battery life, 45 with the case, and unlike Oura charges no subscription for core sleep, recovery and stress data.
“We’re delighted to be back in the US with Ring Pro,” Kumar said at the time. “Ultrahuman is an engineering company, and we believe that the company that leads with engineering will ultimately win in this space.”
The Delhi Counterclaim That Did Not Survive
Kumar’s company has fought back in court before, without success. In 2025 Ultrahuman filed its own infringement suit against Oura in the Delhi High Court, alleging Oura copied women’s health features, circadian tools and its glucose monitoring platform. The court dismissed the case on 1 September 2025, with Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora presiding, Mashable reported. Ultrahuman said it would clarify and re-file.
Oura called that action meritless at the time and described the ITC outcome as decisive. Ultrahuman’s public case has rested on patent age rather than patent absence. “This isn’t a dispute over years of secret R&D,” the company wrote in a blog post about the litigation. “It’s about a very recent patent purchase now being wielded to limit the choices ring-wearers like you have.”
The pattern is now established: Oura sues Ultrahuman in US courts, and Ultrahuman counters where jurisdiction allows.
What The Ring Fight Means For Buyers Outside America
IDC expects global smart-ring shipments to rise 12.8% this year to 4.9 million units and reach about 6.3 million by 2030. Neither company breaks out Africa figures in the filings and statements described here, and that gap matters. Distributors and buyers on the continent sit at the end of an import chain that reacts to US legal outcomes: a permanent injunction would not simply shift American pricing, it would reshape which devices reach secondary markets and at what cost.
The commercial asymmetry is stark. Research firm Omnia put Oura at roughly 74% of the smart ring market last November and Ultrahuman at about 9%. Oura has converted several rivals into licensees, with RingConn and Circular agreeing to pay royalties, while cases against Samsung and Zepp Health continue. It has also shelved a $2.2 billion IPO, citing market “uncertainty,” just weeks before filing this complaint.
That context cuts both ways. A company preparing to return to public markets has reason to defend its patent portfolio loudly. A challenger that just raised $70 million and is co-developing a Qualcomm-powered ring has reason to keep selling.
Kumar’s wager, that engineering beats litigation, now waits on a judge in Texas. Whether Oura sues Ultrahuman again after this complaint, or settles into another royalty arrangement, will say more about the structure of the smart-ring market than any product launch. For buyers in Lagos, Nairobi or Johannesburg, the practical question is narrower: which ring, and at what price, survives the injunction stage.
Frequently Asked Questions
What patents does Oura say the Ultrahuman Ring Pro infringes?
Oura’s complaint cites two: design patent D804,471 and patent 12,769,363, which covers a ring design using a curved battery, circuit board, magnets and sensors. The second patent was issued to Oura on 20 October, two days before the suit was filed.
Why is SVTronics named in the lawsuit?
Oura alleges that SVTronics, a Plano, Texas electronics manufacturer, builds the Ring Pro under Ultrahuman’s direction and control, and that both companies infringe its patents through manufacture, importation and sale of the device in the US.
How did Ultrahuman return to the US market before this suit?
After the ITC import ban on its Ring Air, Ultrahuman redesigned the hardware as the Ring Pro, launched it in February, and received a favourable ruling from US Customs and Border Protection in March, which cleared it for US preorders.
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