DENVER(BRAIN) Strava has dropped the patent infringement lawsuit it filed against Garmin 20 days ago.
Strava filed a "notice of voluntary dismissal without prejudice" with the U.S. District Court in Colorado on Tuesday.
Strava's suit said that Garmin was violating terms of a 2015 patent licensing agreement that let Garmin use Strava Live Segments on its bike computers, watches and software. Strava said Garmin's own-branded segments and leaderboards on its devices and software were not allowed by the licensing agreement.
On a Strava subredditafter the suit was filed, Stravas Chief Product Officer Matt Salazar pointed to a different dispute with Garmin, not contained in the suit. Salazar wrote that the dispute stemmed from new developer guidelines Garmin issued July 1. Salazar said the new guidelines required the Garmin logo to be present on every single activity post, screen, graph, image, sharing card etc. We have until November 1st to comply, and if not, Garmin has threatened to cut off access to their API, stopping all Garmin activities from being uploaded to Strava.
Salazar said the requirement was blatant advertising that detracted from Strava users experience. Unfortunately we could not justify to our users complying with the new guidelines. As such, we have tried to resolve this situation with Garmin over the course of the past five months, including proposing additional attribution across the platform in a less intrusive way, but to no avail, he said.
The complaint did not mention the new developer guidelines that Salazar wrote about.
Garmin remains a defendent in a patent suit filed by Suunto in a Texas court.Suunto charges that many Garmin fitness watches infringe on five of its patents related to tracking golf shots, measuring a users respiratory rate, and positioning antennas and antenna assemblies inside a watch.