Strava filed a lawsuit for its long -standing partner Garmin and seeks to forever block the company from selling most of its current fitness line and bicycle gadgets. Lawsuit filed in the US district court in Colorado, September 30, first reports DC RainmakerHe claims that Garmin violated the agreement between the companies, violating Strava patents for segments – sections of routes where athletes can compare performance time – and heat cards that show popular areas for activities.
Strava is looking for a permanent trial to ban Garmin to sell or offer any products that provide segments or functions of heat display, claiming that “only monetary relief is inappropriate.” These requirements are aimed at the Harmin Connect Fitness Fitness platform and most Garmin devices, including Edge Bike computers, as well as the Forerunner, Fenix and Epix watches.
The lawsuit is amazing, given that these are two of the most recognizable brand in fitness technology and have many integrations between their corresponding platforms. The trend of reports that Strava published last year He even showed that Decaderunner 235 Garmin was the most popular smart observation among its worldwide users.
A STRAVA segments patent It was submitted in 2011 and provided in 2015, describing in detail the system that allows athletes to compare their performances on certain user routes. Garmin launched the Cycle Computer Edge 1000 in 2014, which presented its own Garmin Connect segments system. Later, the company signed an agreement on the main cooperation (MCA) with Strava in 2015 to convey the Strava Live segments to Garmin devices.
In his complaint, Strava says that Garmin violated the terms of MCA, expanding the segments under the Garmin brand outside the permitted experience of Strava, built. Separately, Strava claims that Garmin used his patented segment technology to create a competing system on the Garmin Connect platform and a hardware ecosystem.
Strava also claims that heat display and proposals for the route for Garmin devices and the connection of the platform violate two additional patents. One is focused on Activity of thermal cards was submitted in 2014 and provided in 2016, and the second coating Based on popularity functions of routing Submitting in 2016 and provided in 2017. As DC Rainmaker notes, Garmin first introduced Garmin Connect heating cards in 2013 to STRAVA patent applications.
“Garmin received limited resolution from Strava to introduce Strava segments on his devices; However, they used this access to a thorough study of these functions, carefully copied them, and then released them as Garmin functions, and as a result of Strava sued Garmin to protect her patented inventions, ”said Strava Brian Bell in a statement in a statement GraveThe Garmin field rejected the repeated attempts of the Native to informally consider the issue of violation of Garmin, forcing Strava to stand on this question and file a lawsuit.
Garmin did not immediately respond to a request about the comment.
