Navico UK Limited (formerly Simrad Ltd) is the UK arm of Navico, a marine electronics group. Its registered operations are at Premier Way, Abbey Park, Romsey, Hampshire. Navico Holding AS was headquartered in Egersund, Norway, and was acquired by Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC) for $1.05 billion, completed October 4, 2021; the business now sits within Brunswick's Navico Group division. Brunswick's acquisition release stated Navico had roughly 2,000 employees globally and revenues of about $470 million for the trailing 12 months ended May 31, 2021, with distribution in more than 100 countries. Separate size figures for the UK entity itself are not published.
Products / operations. Navico is an operating company in marine electronics. Its product portfolio includes multi-function displays and networked display systems, fish finders and sonar, radar, autopilots, gyros and instruments, and cartography/software. It sells under the Lowrance, Simrad, B&G and C-MAP brands, serving recreational powerboat, sailing and commercial marine markets, and it also supplies OEM and aftermarket channels. Navico UK's Maritime & Coastguard Agency / Marine Equipment Directive certificates cover navigation and radiocommunication equipment such as 9 GHz SART transponders and portable VHF survival-craft radios.
Patent-litigation posture. Navico UK appears only as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 2 defendant cases). Both tracked matters were brought by Japanese marine-electronics manufacturer Furuno Electric against Navico and co-defendants including Garmin and Raymarine — competitor-versus-competitor patent assertions, not NPE/PAE activity. Venues were the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon and the U.S. International Trade Commission (Section 337), not plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas dockets.
Notable cases. In Furuno Electric Co., Ltd. et al. v. Navico Holding AS et al. (D. Or., filed September 23, 2013), Furuno asserted U.S. Patents 6,084,565, 6,424,292, 7,161,561 and 7,768,447, covering radar/navigation display and mapping functionality. The parallel ITC complaint (published as Furuno Electric Co., Ltd. et al. v. Garmin Ltd. et al.) named Navico Holding AS, Navico UK Limited and Navico Inc. as respondents alongside Garmin and Raymarine entities, seeking exclusion and cease-and-desist orders on imported navigation products.