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This just makes me smile ..a lot!
2024 Phoenix 818, Mercury 175 (3B414035) Trick Steps, 3 Garmin 106 SV,s, LVS 34. BoatEFX dual bow mount. Ionic 12V 125AH, 2 12V 100 ah LiTime’s for the TM. Minn Kota 345 PCL charger,
Now Navico needs to be counter sued for Harrassment and loss of revenue.
2024 Phoenix 818, Mercury 175 (3B414035) Trick Steps, 3 Garmin 106 SV,s, LVS 34. BoatEFX dual bow mount. Ionic 12V 125AH, 2 12V 100 ah LiTime’s for the TM. Minn Kota 345 PCL charger,
Are GT-52's on the way?
2024 Phoenix 818, Mercury 175 (3B414035) Trick Steps, 3 Garmin 106 SV,s, LVS 34. BoatEFX dual bow mount. Ionic 12V 125AH, 2 12V 100 ah LiTime’s for the TM. Minn Kota 345 PCL charger,
I'd say you could bet on that and more!!! I'm looking forward to seeing new units, new transducers and new capabilities.
My wife asks if I'm going to fish every day. I can't fish every day. Some days I might be sick.
Question is.... why did it take this long? What did the first court miss, that this one saw.
G-S, they must have talked with Vic..
The first court sided with Garmin, next appeal - Lowrance, next decision - Lowrance, Now Garmin. Not much appeal left. Supreme Court not known for hearing patent cases. Lowrance would have to find some procedural something they felt was violated. Looks to me like it's over------- really over and a really tough decision against Lowrance. The court ruled that Lowrance's patent was invalid. So Humminbird and Raymarine have been paying Navico for rights to an invalid patent and likely signed contracts to do that for some time.
My wife asks if I'm going to fish every day. I can't fish every day. Some days I might be sick.
Interesting indeed. So has HB been paying licensing fees all this time to Navico to use a technology that they don't have a valid patent for? Time to demand a refund.
2024 Phoenix 818, Mercury 175 (3B414035) Trick Steps, 3 Garmin 106 SV,s, LVS 34. BoatEFX dual bow mount. Ionic 12V 125AH, 2 12V 100 ah LiTime’s for the TM. Minn Kota 345 PCL charger,
2024 Phoenix 818, Mercury 175 (3B414035) Trick Steps, 3 Garmin 106 SV,s, LVS 34. BoatEFX dual bow mount. Ionic 12V 125AH, 2 12V 100 ah LiTime’s for the TM. Minn Kota 345 PCL charger,
Be interested to see how this affects the transducer situation and how fast Garmin can react. Might have to hold off on the Humminbird I was looking at.
If Garmin had been so sure they were not infringing on Navico, they would have never built the ClearVu transducers to begin with. Garmin knew what they were doing.
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2024 Phoenix 818, Mercury 175 (3B414035) Trick Steps, 3 Garmin 106 SV,s, LVS 34. BoatEFX dual bow mount. Ionic 12V 125AH, 2 12V 100 ah LiTime’s for the TM. Minn Kota 345 PCL charger,
Agreed with the analysis above. While it is a disappointing day for a Navico legal team that attempted to stretch patent law to deliver a monopoly to Lowrance, consumers and fishermen should be very happy.
The following quote is spot-on: "Navico’s downscan technology was an obvious modification of old sonar systems..."
Thank God, this court --these judges-- saw through it, and finally set it right. Pointing any sonar system down is NOT a new idea. Most old sonar have always pointed down. Patent law requires patents be "genuinely novel, new".
Garmin took a VERY DIFFICULT and stoic stand, but oddly the stand taken WILL benefit Raymarine and Hummingbird consumers as well as those who appreciate Garmin's products. What Garmin has done will help keep competition and pricing for downscan sonar products a competitive market, and knock down a flimsy patent that will not benefit bass fishermen.
It is interesting, if Navico continues, they won't receive warm fuzzy feeling from fishermen who have a basic economic understanding of how their own economic stakes in legal wordplay.