Garmin suits Garmin in the case of exotic patents violating

It seems that fitness technology has a strange dispute. Earlier this week, Strava filed a lawsuit claiming that Garmin violated its patents for Mizin linked to tracking exercise methods: sectors and thermal maps. It also claims that Garmin violated the main cooperation agreement by developing its heat map feature. the complaint (via The street) Looking for a permanent judicial order to prevent Garmin from selling any elements with slices or features of the heat map, which will reach most of the Garmin products in addition to the Connect tracking program.

The case on its own is a surprise. Strava and Garmin are two main players in fitness technology that have worked together about a decade ago, and the husband has a number of integration between their platforms. It also seems that Stroter is unlikely to make a lot of progress with the case. DC RainmakerWhich was taken first in the lawsuit, it has a comprehensive timetable to see the patents of the companies strongly indicates that the arguments will not keep water in the court. It is also strange that these alleged violations, through STARTA, have started a long time ago, yet the company is not only exposed to it.

But the situation has become strange even when Matt Salazar, the chief product employee at Strava, took to Reddit today to give an insight into the reason for taking these aggressive measures against a repeated partner. According to Alazar Strava calls on lawyers because Garmin adopts new developer guidelines for API partners “that requires the Garmin logo in every one activity post, screen, graph, image, sharing card, etc.”. Although it framed it as a step to protect user data, the intermediary looks like a trivial complaint that Garmin puts its brand on the data that its products use to collect.

It is a strange lawsuit, and we hope that it does not cause any disturbances for the company’s customers.