More bad news for Garmin from Customs and Border Patrol

[mossie3]

I'm not sure if I'm understanding this correctly. So it's illegal by the ruling, for Garmin to sell a bundled unit that does down view, but it is legal for Garmin to sell a clear view bundled unit, that doesn't do true down imaging, and then sell you a Garmin branded down view transducer that does true down imaging. So they just use a loophole to use Navico's technology, and the end result is the same. I'm surprised Navico doesn't pursue shutting that down as well.
Garmin should have taken the legal route and licensed the technology in the beginning. Instead they stole it, got caught, changed their bundled transducer, to legally get around the ruling, and hid the truth to their own customers, portraying it like that the changes to the transducer was an improvement, when it was actually a downgrade to comply with the ruling. And then made it known that the MFD unit still was capable of using true down imaging, with a separately purchased Garmin GT transducer.
Shame on them.

[Larry3215]

I'm not sure if I'm understanding this correctly. So it's illegal by the ruling, for Garmin to sell a bundled unit that does down view, but it is legal for Garmin to sell a clear view bundled unit, that doesn't do true down imaging, and then sell you a Garmin branded down view transducer that does true down imaging. So they just use a loophole to use Navico's technology, and the end result is the same. I'm surprised Navico doesn't pursue shutting that down as well.
Garmin should have taken the legal route and licensed the technology in the beginning. Instead they stole it, got caught, changed their bundled transducer, to legally get around the ruling, and hid the truth to their own customers, portraying it like that the changes to the transducer was an improvement, when it was actually a downgrade to comply with the ruling. And then made it known that the MFD unit still was capable of using true down imaging, with a separately purchased Garmin GT transducer.
Shame on them.

Thats exactly what Navico is doing and it sure sounds like thats what the CBP is going to do - block imports of all GT transducers and MFD that do downview.

http://www.tradeonlytoday.com/2017/0...n-patent-case/

“CBP issued its own 47-page decision, independent of the ITC judge’s 76-page decision,” Navico CEO Leif Ottosson told Trade Only Today in an email. “Both arrived at the same conclusion: that Garmin’s tilted design products infringe Navico’s patents. In Navico’s view, Garmin may no longer import or sell its GT-series DownVu transducers or head units capable of operating with such transducers.”