I'll verify Garmin's corporate details before writing.
Let me verify the 2012 ITC case context.
Garmin International, Inc. is the principal U.S. operating subsidiary of Garmin Ltd. (NYSE: GRMN; formerly Nasdaq: GRMN), a Swiss-incorporated holding company with no parent and no 10% shareholder. Garmin Ltd. was founded in 1989 by Gary Burrell and Min Kao; Garmin International is a Kansas corporation headquartered at 1200 East 151st Street, Olathe, Kansas, which serves as the group's main operational base (Garmin Ltd.'s registered office is in Schaffhausen, Switzerland). It is a large public company: roughly 21,800 employees at fiscal year-end 2024 (about 23,000 in FY2025), with net sales of $6.30 billion in FY2024 and $7.25 billion in FY2025.
Garmin designs, manufactures, and sells GPS/GNSS-enabled devices and related navigation, communication, and sensor-based products, and is organized into five reporting segments: fitness (Forerunner and other running/multisport watches, cycling computers, Tacx trainers), outdoor (handhelds, adventure watches, satellite communicators), aviation (avionics, flight displays, transponders), marine (chartplotters, sonar, autopilots), and auto OEM (infotainment and navigation systems for vehicle manufacturers). It also sells subscriptions such as satellite communication service. It reports over 300 million products delivered since inception and operates manufacturing sites in the U.S., Taiwan, China, the Netherlands, and Poland. This is an operating company, not an NPE.
Litigation posture: Garmin appears in the tracked data as a defendant only (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case). That pattern is consistent with a product company defending against third-party assertions rather than a party asserting its own portfolio.
Tracked case: Technology Properties Limited LLC et al. v. Acer Inc. et al. (U.S. International Trade Commission, filed 2012-07-24). Complainants Technology Properties Limited LLC, Phoenix Digital Solutions LLC, and Patriot Scientific Corp. — licensing arms associated with the "MMP Portfolio" (Moore Microprocessor Patent) program run by Alliacense — sought a Section 337 investigation, Certain Wireless Consumer Electronics Devices and Components Thereof, naming Garmin Ltd., Garmin International, and Garmin USA alongside Acer, Amazon, Samsung, Nintendo, LG, HTC, Huawei, ZTE, and others. The asserted patent was U.S. 5,809,336 ("High performance microprocessor having variable speed system clock"). A parallel Northern District of California suit against Garmin asserted U.S. 5,809,336, 5,440,749, and 5,530,890, and was stayed pending the ITC investigation. Venue was the ITC and N.D. Cal., not the Eastern District of Texas.