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1 case as defendant.
Sygic a.s. (commonly "Sygic") is a Slovak GPS navigation software company headquartered in Bratislava, Slovakia. It was founded in 2004 by Michal Štencl, Martin Kališ, and Peter Pecho. Sygic is privately held, with no public ticker; no parent company is confirmed in public sources. Company press materials and Wikipedia put headcount at roughly 190–200 employees, predominantly R&D engineers. Revenue figures could not be verified from a reliable public source.
Products / operations. Sygic develops navigation software rather than hardware. Its main offerings include the consumer offline GPS navigation app for iOS and Android (Sygic GPS Navigation), navigation and routing products for commercial vehicles and truck fleets, and automotive/OEM navigation and map software licensed to vehicle manufacturers, plus SDKs for business and fleet customers. The company states its products have been used by more than 200 million users across consumer, trucking, delivery, emergency-services, and insurance segments.
Patent-litigation posture. Sygic is an operating company defending against patent assertion, not an NPE. In the tracked data it appears as a defendant in one case and as a plaintiff in zero, a pattern consistent with a practicing company being targeted. The sole matter, Navog LLC v. Sygic a.s. (No. 2:24-cv-00364), was filed May 16, 2024, in the Eastern District of Texas before Judge Rodney Gilstrap and Magistrate Judge Roy S. Payne—a plaintiff-friendly venue. Navog LLC is characterized by Unified Patents as an NPE affiliated with Eric Zautner, and the case involves U.S. Patent 10,593,205, directed to a GPS-based warning system for low-clearance structures such as bridges and tunnels.
Context. The Sygic suit is part of a broader Navog campaign asserting the same patent against in-vehicle navigation and infotainment providers, including Garmin, TomTom, Panasonic, Trimble, Rand McNally, TeleType, and Verizon. That the dispute centers on GPS/navigation technology reflects Sygic's core product area. The docket's most recent entry is dated March 10, 2025; no outcome is established.
Navog LLC asserted US 10,593,205 against Sygic a.s. in E.D. Tex. before Judge Gilstrap; last docket activity was 2025-03-10 and no dismissal order was found.