Motive Technologies has been ordered to pay rival Samsara more than $30 million over false advertising claims but was cleared in a patent infringement case, marking the latest chapter in the ongoing legal battle between the two suppliers of connected fleet technology.
In February, the U.S. International Trade Commission affirmed a judge’s earlier ruling that Motive’s in-cab technology did not violate Samsara’s patents and ended its investigation of the matter.
However, an arbitrator awarded Samsara an injunction and damages related to non-patent claims following a confidential arbitration proceeding.
In an internal note to his company’s employees, Motive CEO Shoaib Makani highlighted the ITC ruling.
“This is a win for the nearly 100,000 customers and more than 1 million drivers who rely on our technology to improve the safety of our roads,” he wrote.
In the note, Makani also acknowledged that the arbitrator awarded Samsara an injunction and damages in part related to benchmarking studies that Motive commissioned to compare the performance of its artificial intelligence-enabled dash cameras with Samsara’s products.
As a result, Motive will no longer use those studies, Makani wrote.
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