Staying Strong Against Patent Infringement In the highly competitive world of fitness technology, intellectual property is a company's lifeblood. If that vital asset is threatened, the health of the company is at stake. A global manufacturer of wearable training and activity devices and heart rate monitors turned to Holland & Knight's intellectual property attorneys to fend off patent infringement claims and assert its own patents against competitors in two separate cases. Finnish company Polar Electro Oy makes wireless devices that Icon Health & Fitness claimed violated its patent on an exercise system with both "in-band" and "out-of-band" communications. Arguing on behalf of Polar, Holland & Knight scrutinized the competitor's claims, saying that the patent was invalid because the terms

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