Legal Files: Complete Issue Index
Legal Files is a weekly roundup of the court cases and legal rulings involving the sports watch, ring and fitness platform companies this site covers. It covers patent, trademark, and trade secret disputes, consumer class actions, import bans, and regulatory actions. Every entry states who is suing whom, what is alleged, where the case stands and what it could mean for the products athletes buy and use. The index below lists every issue, newest first. Updated every Tuesday.
Companies covered every week: Garmin, Apple, Samsung, Google and Fitbit, COROS, Polar, Suunto, Amazfit, Huawei, Xiaomi, Moto, WHOOP, Wahoo, Oura, Ultrahuman, Strava, Peloton, Zwift and Masimo.
Legal Files Editions
Issue 0: September 2026: A $5.7 billion jury verdict against Apple over the Taptic Engine, UnaliWear’s second ITC import ban complaint naming Garmin, Samsung and Google, and IOENGINE patent suits against Garmin and Samsung.
The rest of the Deep Dive series
Regulatory Filing tracks products close to sale. Each weekly issue lists new filings at the FCC, the Bluetooth SIG, and Asian and Gulf regulators, with the model number, what the record reveals, and how firm the evidence is. Read it when you want to know what is coming before it is announced.
Trademark & Patent Filing tracks the names and inventions the brands are protecting. Each weekly issue lists new trademarks and patents, says what each would mean for an athlete and rates how likely it is to ship. Read it when you want an early view of where a brand is heading.
The Deep Dive Digest is the weekly news email. It gathers the significant sports technology stories from the5krunner into one edition: the leaks, the launches, the lawsuits and the industry moves, sent free and without ads. Read it when you want the week’s news in one place, not story by story.
The Deep Dive Feature Files tracks what your devices actually gained. One post each week lists every meaningful new firmware feature across Garmin, COROS, Suunto, Amazfit, Polar, Wahoo, Hammerhead, Samsung, and Huawei, leaving out bug fixes and minor point releases. Read it when you want to know whether an update added anything worth having.
The Deep Dive Fix Files explains what went wrong and how to fix it. Each weekly issue covers a sports tech fault, the affected hardware or software, and the best fix or workaround the endurance community has found, with a topic index covering the whole archive. Read it when a device is misbehaving and you want a known solution.
