When Protecting Your Patent Goes Wrong – Strava v. Garmin.
By: Theresa Small
Most endurance athletes have heard of the titan of the GPS tracking industry – Garmin. Garmin was founded in 1989 by two electrical engineers and since then they have risen to not only global prominence but dominance.[1] Their watches range anywhere from a few hundred (the average being around four hundred) to two thousand dollars.[2] A good GPS watch is an endurance athletes best friend, from tracking heart rate, to sleep, workouts, calories burned, stress on the body. Garmin even recommends workouts for you based on the data it has collected.[3]