Garmin doesn’t even blink as Strava voluntarily drops its lawsuit

When Strava hit Garmin with a lawsuit late last month, it was a pretty big deal. The company wasn’t thrilled with Garmin infringing on some of its patents while also creating competing products. Strava was even willing to take it as far as restricting the sales of Garmin products with these infringing features.

Well, just a few weeks later, Strava has completely changed its tune, according to DC Rainmaker, as it has now voluntarily dropping its lawsuit against Garmin (via Engadget). As you can imagine, this event is now a pretty big deal, considering that Strava was pretty loud about its complaint, even going on Reddit to vent its frustrations.

Garmin didn’t even blink

Although there will always be potential issues between partners, this one was a bit of a head scratcher since Strava relies on third-party wearables in order to gather the data necessary for its apps and services to work. Garmin is a huge wearables maker that offers some of the best fitness-focused products you can buy in 2025.

DC Rainmaker further states that “Garmin’s data fuels massive portions of Strava’s platform from a route standpoint. If Garmin were to shut off that connection, it would almost immediately spell the end of Strava.” Naturally, there is a lot of speculation about how all this came about, and just how quickly this was all resolved.

It’s unclear what happened behind closed doors, but we all know that going forward, things are going to be quite different. While Strava and Garmin have had a pretty successful partnership for some time now, this rift is sure to create some new situations on both sides.

Garmin will surely start to make moves with new partners, potentially even finding a replacement for Strava, and Strava will need to navigate the dangerous waters that surround the brand. This is a critical time for Strava, especially considering that there’s been lots of news about the brand exploring an IPO.

Some have even speculated that this lawsuit was an attempt to drum up attention for the company ahead of the IPO in 2026. Naturally, we will just have to wait and see what happens over the next year to see just how bad the fall-out really is.