Tag Archives: Navico

Lowrance announced an exclusive agreement with G3 Boats to include Lowrance HOOK fishfinder/chartplotter displays on all 2018 model Sportsman Series fishing boats. Lowrance HOOK fishfinder/chartplotters come with a SolarMAX display and Lowrance sonar performance, including Advanced Signal Processing (ASP), Trackback, Broadband and CHIRP sonar. Select models also include DownScan Imaging for picture-like images of fish-holding structure directly beneath the boat. ...

Navico – manufacturer of marine electronics and parent company to the Lowrance, Simrad and B&G brands – announced the finalization of an agreement to acquire Naviop, a marine monitoring and control systems manufacturer. Providing the integration framework to capture data from all boating systems, Naviop creates a digital ecosystem on boats outfitted with Simrad, Lowrance and B&G marine electronics, with ...

Navico has responded to an announcement that a U.S. Court of Appeals has reversed a previous ruling in favor of Navico in one of its patent lawsuits against Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ:GRMN). “Obviously, we are disappointed in the appellate court’s decision following four rulings in Navico’s favor on this matter,” said Leif Ottosson, CEO, Navico. “As a result, we are analyzing ...

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a December 2015 finding by the International Trade Commission that Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), had infringed Navico patents related to downscan sonar. Specifically, the Federal Circuit ruled that two of Navico’s patents were invalid and that Garmin’s DownVü sonar does not infringe a third Navico ...

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection ruled on June 5, 2017 that Garmin’s DownVü products are not admissible into the United States. This ruling comes on the heels of an Enforcement Initial Determination filed by an International Trade Commission Administrative Law Judge on May 25, 2017, which found that Garmin violated the cease-and-desist orders issued in 2015 regarding the importation ...

An Enforcement Initial Determination filed by an Administrative Law Judge at the International Trade Commission made an initial determination in the enforcement proceeding brought by Navico, Inc. against Garmin. The ALJ’s initial determination concluded that Garmin’s sale of certain DownVü sonar products violated the ITC’s December 2015 orders arising from a previous Navico-Garmin ITC investigation. The ALJ recommends a fine ...

Lowrance announced today plans for the celebration of its 60th anniversary. Founded by Darrell J. Lowrance in 1957, the company designed and manufactured the original FISH LO-K-TOR – the first transistorized sonar product to display individual fish and show their depths. The FISH LO-K-TOR sold over a million units from 1959 to 1984. Over its history, Lowrance introduced the first ...

Navico, manufacturer of marine electronics and parent company to the Lowrance, Simrad and B&G brands, announced that Sean Hatherley, director of sales for Navico Americas, has been named to the board of directors of the National Marine Electronics Association. NMEA board members are appointed to a three-year term where they work together to create and promote NMEA strategies and programs. ...

Boating Industry sits down with Navico CEO Leif Ottosson to learn why the future of marine electronics lies in present-day automobiles. 2016 was a busy year for Navico, the parent company to the Lowrance, Simrad, B&G and GoFree marine electronics brands. Its saltwater fishing-oriented Simrad brand posted a 37 percent revenue growth in America last year, on top of 29 ...

Simrad announced S5100 High-Performance CHIRP Sonar Module, a sonar module that offers three fully independent sonar channels desgined to deliver high-resolution sonar across multiple depth ranges. The S5100 delivers simultaneous coverage of up to three different depth ranges, whether connected to three single-channel transducers or one, dual-channel and one single-channel transducer. Simultaneous split-screen viewing capability puts anglers in complete control ...