Trucking news and briefs for Friday, Feb. 16, 2024:
The legal battle between electronic logging device providers Motive and Samsara is picking up steam following Samsara’s opening salvo last month filing suit against Motive for allegedly stealing intellectual property. In the latest development, Motive countersued, alleging similar theft on the part of Samsara, among other things.
San Francisco-based Samsara, which provides ELDs, telematics, dash cameras and more, claimed fleet management provider Motive Technologies Inc. has engaged in illegal conduct that includes patent infringement and false advertisement.
Motive has filed a lawsuit against Samsara for copying its dashcam technology, among other things.Motive
Samsara asserted in the complaint that Motive is copying Samsara’s patented technology at all levels, including the overall structure of its system, the AI applications it offers to analyze customer data, the look and feel of the user interface for its telematics and safety solutions, and the IoT hardware devices (dash cameras, etc.) that collect the necessary data and enable all follow-on services.
Samsara requested the ITC issue an exclusion order and a cease-and-desist order to prevent Motive’s Vehicle Gateway and dashcam products from being imported into the United States and to prohibit Motive from selling, marketing, advertising or distributing those products.
Motive has maintained that it believes Samsara is actually the company that copied its technology instead.
