Garmin Ltd has filed a patent infringement suit against Bryton Inc in the US District Court for the District of Kansas.
In the lawsuit, Garmin accuses Bryton’s products of mimicking the appearance and functionality of Garmin’s popular Edge cycle computers, resulting in the infringement of Garmin’s design and utility patents.
“We are proud of the intellectual property rights awarded to our innovative products and we have little tolerance for companies that attempt to trade unfairly on those rights,” said Andrew Etkind, Garmin’s Vice President and General Counsel.
Garmin is seeking a preliminary injunction to bar immediately the sale of Bryton’s Rider 30 product in the United States.
According to Garmin, in a related German design patent infringement litigation filed by a subsidiary of Garmin, the D
