Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Raymarine UK Limited is a UK private limited company (Companies House no. 04578449), incorporated 31 October 2002, with its registered office at Marine House, Cartwright Drive, Fareham, Hampshire. The Raymarine brand itself dates to a January 2001 management buyout of Raytheon's recreational marine division; the business was listed on the London Stock Exchange before being placed into administration and acquired by FLIR Systems in May 2010. Its ultimate parent is Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE: TDY), which acquired FLIR in 2021. Raymarine UK is wholly owned by RIHL Limited, a Teledyne holding company, and sits inside the Teledyne FLIR Maritime group alongside FLIR Marine, ChartWorld, SevenCs and Teledyne CARIS.
Operations: Raymarine designs, manufactures and distributes marine electronics for the recreational boating and light commercial marine markets. Product lines include radar, sonar and fishfinders, autopilots, GPS chartplotters and multifunction displays, instruments, AIS, thermal night-vision cameras, satellite television and integrated navigation systems. UK accounts filed at Companies House are full accounts; Teledyne does not break out Raymarine results, and third-party aggregators report figures (roughly £100M+ turnover, a few hundred employees) that I could not verify against a primary source.
Litigation posture: In our tracked data Raymarine UK appears only as a defendant (0 plaintiff, 1 defendant), consistent with an operating company being sued rather than a patent assertion entity. The single tracked matter, Furuno Electric Co., Ltd. et al. v. Raymarine UK Limited et al., was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon — Furuno's U.S. base is Camas, Washington — not a plaintiff-friendly NPE venue.
Case context: Filed 23 September 2013 (No. 3:13-cv-01687), that suit paralleled a Section 337 complaint at the ITC against Garmin, Navico and Raymarine over four Furuno navigation/radar-display patents ('565, '292, '561, '447). Raymarine UK was voluntarily dismissed without prejudice in December 2013 under a stipulated motion, while Raymarine, Inc. answered and counterclaimed. Competitor-versus-competitor marine-electronics disputes of this kind have been a recurring theme for the Raymarine entities.
Furuno sued Raymarine entities in the District of Oregon; the '561 patent was among the asserted patents. The case was concluded by settlement, with the parallel ITC matter settled in August–September 2014.