ORIGINAL COMPLAINT FOR PATENT INFRINGEMENT 1

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS

MARSHALL DIVISION

MOBILE HEALTH INNOVATIVE 

SOLUTIONS, LLC,

Plaintiff,

v.

APPLE INC.

Defendant.

CASE NO. 2:24-cv-14

JURY TRIAL DEMANDED

ORIGINAL COMPLAINT FOR PATENT INFRINGEMENT

Mobile Health Innovative Solutions, LLC (“Plaintiff” and/or “MHIS”) files this complaint 

against Apple Inc. (“Defendant” and/or “Apple”) for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 11,468,984

(“the ’984 Patent”) and alleges as follows:

THE PARTIES

1. Plaintiff is a Wyoming company having its principal place of business in Cheyenne, 

Wyoming.

2. Upon information and belief, Defendant is a company that has offices in this District and 

recently lost an ITC trial due to its infringement of a third party’s patent rights.

JURISDICTION AND VENUE

3. This action arises under the patent laws of the United States, 35 U.S.C. § 271 et seq. 

Plaintiff is seeking damages, as well as attorney fees and costs.

4. Jurisdiction is proper in this Court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331, 1332, 1338, and 1367.

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5. On information and belief, this Court has personal jurisdiction over Defendant because 

Defendant has committed, and continues to commit, acts of infringement in this District, has 

conducted business in this District, and/or has engaged in continuous and systematic activities in 

this District.

6. More specifically, Defendant, directly and/or through intermediaries, ship, distribute, use, 

offer for sale, sell, and/or advertise products and/orservices in the United States, the State of Texas, 

and the Eastern District of Texas including but not limited to the Products as detailed below. Upon 

information and belief, Defendant has committed patent infringement in the State of Texas and in 

the Eastern District of Texas. Defendant solicits and has solicited customers in the State of Texas 

and in the Eastern District of Texas. Defendant has paying customers, who are residents of the 

State of Texas and the Eastern District of Texas, who each use and have used the Defendant’s

products and services in the State of Texas and in the Eastern District of Texas.

7. On information and belief, Defendant’s instrumentalities that are alleged herein to infringe 

were and continue to be used, imported, offered for sale, and/or sold in this District.

8. Venue is proper as Apple files lawsuits in this District on a regular basis, including against 

competitor Ericsson. See Figure 1.

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Figure 1 – Screen excerpts from Apple Inc. v. Ericsson, Case 2:21-cv-00460-JRG, Dkt. 55 (E.D. 

Tex. April 6, 2022) (Ericsson’s Answer to Apple’s Complaint filed under seal without a public 

version being filed with the Court for the Public).

PATENT-IN-SUIT 

9. On October 11, 2022, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) duly and 

legally issued the ’984 Patent, entitled “Device, Method and Application for Establishing a Current 

Load Level.” The ’984 Patent is attached as Exhibit A. 

10. Plaintiff is the sole and exclusive owner, by assignment, of the ’984 Patent.

11. Plaintiff possesses all rights of recovery under the ’984 Patent, including the exclusive right 

to recover for past, present and future infringement.

12. The ’984 Patent contains eighteen claims including two independent claims (claims 1 and 

12) and sixteen dependent claims.

13. The priority date of the ’984 Patent is at least as early as August 1, 2013. As of the priority 

date, the inventions as claimed were novel, non-obvious, unconventional, and non-routine.

14. Plaintiff alleges infringement on the part of Defendant of the ’984 Patent.

15. The ’984 Patent teaches devices and methods for establishing a current load or stress level 

of a user. The devices and methods of the ’984 Patent determine a current load or stress level of a 

user from biometric data obtained from at least one sensor on a mobile terminal. See ’984 Patent, 

Abstract.

16. The ’984 Patent was examined by Primary United States Patent Examiner Rex R. Holmes. 

During the examination of the ’984 Patent, the United States Patent Examiner searched for prior 

art in the following US Classifications: G16H 40167 (2018.01); A61B 51165 (2013.01); A61B 

514809 (2013.01); A61B 514812 (2013.01); A61B 514815 (2013.01); A61B 514884 (2013.01); 

A61B 517267 (2013.01); G06N 3/04 (2013.01); G06N 3/0454 (2013.01); G06N 3/084 (2013.01); 

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G06N 3/088 (2013.01); Gl0L 25163 (2013.01); Gl0L 25166 (2013.01); G16B 40120 (2019.02); 

G16H 50/20 (2018.01); A61B 511124 (2013.01); A61B 5/486 (2013.01); A61B 5/4806 (2013.01); 

A61B 5/6898 (2013.01); A61B 5/7264 (2013.01); G06N 3/0445 (2013.01); and Gl6B 40/00 

(2019.02).

17. After conducting a search for prior art during the examination of the ’984 Patent, the United 

States Patent Examiner identified and cited over 40 references published articles.

18. After giving full proper credit to the prior art and having conducted a thorough search for 

all relevant art and having fully considered the most relevant art known at the time, the United 

States Patent Examiner allowed all of the claims of the ’984 Patent to issue. In so doing, it is 

presumed that Examiner Holmes used his knowledge of the art when examining the claims. K/S 

Himpp v. Hear-Wear Techs., LLC, 751 F.3d 1362, 1369 (Fed. Cir. 2014). It is further presumed 

that Examiner Holmes had experience in the field of the invention, and that the Examiner properly 

acted in accordance with a person of ordinary skill. In re Sang Su Lee, 277 F.3d 1338, 1345 (Fed. 

Cir. 2002). In view of the foregoing, the claims of the ’984 Patent are novel and non-obvious, 

including over all non-cited art which is merely cumulative with the referenced and cited prior art. 

Likewise, the claims of the ’984 Patent are novel and non-obvious, including over all non-cited 

contemporaneous state of the art systems and methods, all of which would have been known to a 

person of ordinary skill in the art, and which were therefore presumptively also known and 

considered by Examiner Holmes.

19. The claims of the ’984 Patent were all properly issued, and are valid and enforceable for 

the respective terms of their statutory life through expiration, and are enforceable for purposes of 

seeking damages for past infringement even post-expiration. See, e.g., Genetics Institute, LLC v. 

Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc., 655 F.3d 1291, 1299 (Fed. Cir. 2011) (“[A]n expired 

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patent is not viewed as having ‘never existed.’ Much to the contrary, a patent does have value 

beyond its expiration date. For example, an expired patent may form the basis of an action for 

past damages subject to the six-year limitation under 35 U.S.C. § 286”) (internal citations omitted).

20. The nominal expiration date for the claims of the ’984 Patent is no earlier than August 1, 

2033.

COUNT I

(Infringement of United States Patent No. 11,468,984)

21. Plaintiff refers to and incorporates the allegations in Paragraphs 1 – 20, the same as if set 

forth herein.

22. This cause of action arises under the patent laws of the United States and, in particular 

under 35 U.S.C. §§ 271, et seq.

23. Defendant has knowledge of its infringement of the ’984 Patent, at least as of the service 

of the present complaint.

24. The ’984 Patent is valid, enforceable, and was duly issued in full compliance with Title 35 

of the United States Code.

25. Upon information and belief, Defendant has infringed and continues to infringe one or 

more claims, including at least Claim 1, of the ’984 Patent by manufacturing, using, importing, 

selling, offering for sale, and/or providing (as identified in the Claim Charts attached hereto as 

Exhibits B) products including, but not limited to, the Series 7, 8, and Apple Smartwatches, 

including later versions with the same Accused Functionality (“Accused Instrumentalities”), 

which infringe at least Claim 1 of the ’984 Patent. Defendant has infringed and continues to 

infringe the ’984 patent either directly or through acts of contributory infringement or inducement 

in violation of 35 U.S.C. § 271.

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26. Defendant also has and continues to directly infringe, literally or under the doctrine of 

equivalents, one or more claims, including at least Claim 1, of the ’984 Patent, by having its 

employees internally test and use these exemplary Products.

27. The service of this Complaint, in conjunction with the attached claim chart and references 

cited, constitutes actual knowledge of infringement as alleged here.

28. Despite such actual knowledge, Defendant continues to make, use, test, sell, offer for sale, 

market, and/or import into the United States, products that infringe one or more claims, including 

at least Claim 1, of the ’984 Patent. On information and belief, Defendant has also continued to 

sell the exemplary Products and distribute product literature and website materials inducing end 

users and others to use its products in the customary and intended manner that infringes one or 

more claims, including at least Claim 1, of the ’984 Patent. See Exhibits B and C (extensively 

referencing these materials to demonstrate how they direct end users to commit patent 

infringement).

29. At least since being served by this Complaint and corresponding claim chart, Defendant 

has actively, knowingly, and intentionally continued to induce infringement of the ’984 Patent, 

literally or by the doctrine of equivalents, by selling exemplary Products to their customers for use 

in end-user products in a manner that infringes one or more claims, including at least Claim 1, of 

the ’984 Patent.

30. Exhibits B and C include charts comparing the exemplary Claim 1 of the ’984 Patent to 

Defendant’s exemplary Products. As set forth in these charts, the Defendant’s exemplary Products 

practice the technology claimed by the ’984 Patent. Accordingly, the Defendant’s exemplary 

Products incorporated in these charts satisfy all elements of the exemplary Claim 1 of the ‘984

Patent.

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31. Plaintiff therefore incorporates by reference in its allegations herein the claim chart of 

Exhibits B and C.

32. Plaintiff is entitled to recover damages adequate to compensate for Defendant's 

infringement.

33. Defendant’s actions complained of herein will continue unless Defendant is enjoined by 

this court.

34. Defendant’s actions complained of herein are causing irreparable harm and monetary 

damage to Plaintiff and will continue to do so unless and until Defendant is enjoined and restrained 

by this Court.

35. Plaintiff is in compliance with 35 U.S.C. § 287.

PRAYER FOR RELIEF

WHEREFORE, Plaintiff respectfully asks the Court to:

1. Enter judgment for Plaintiff on this Complaint on all cases of action asserted herein;

2. Enter an Order enjoining Defendant, its agents, officers, servants, employees, attorneys, 

and all persons in active concert or participation with Defendant who receives notice of the 

order from further infringement of United States Patent No. 11,468,984 (or, in the 

alternative, awarding Plaintiff running royalty from the time judgment going forward);

3. Award Plaintiff damages resulting from Defendant’s infringement in accordance with 35 

U.S.C. § 284; and

4. Award Plaintiff such further relief to which the Court finds Plaintiff entitled under law or 

equity.

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DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL

Plaintiff, under Rule 38 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, requests a trial by jury of 

any issues so triable by right.

Dated: January 10, 2024 Respectfully Submitted,

/s/ Randall Garteiser 

Randall Garteiser

 Texas Bar No. 24038912

 rgarteiser@ghiplaw.com

M. Scott Fuller

 Texas Bar No. 24036607

 sfuller@ghiplaw.com

GARTEISER HONEA, PLLC

119 W. Ferguson Street

Tyler, Texas 75702

Telephone: (903) 705-7420

Facsimile: (903) 405-3999

René A. Vazquez

Virginia Bar No. 41988

rvazquez@sinergialaw.com

COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFF

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