backOn April 24, 2025, after an eight-day trial and nearly two years of litigation, King & Spalding won a complete defense verdict on behalf of its client, Motive Technologies, Inc. (“Motive”), the AI-powered Integrated Operations Platform, in a lawsuit against Omnitracs, XRS Corporation and SmartDrive in a case pending in the Northern District of California.
Omnitracs filed its lawsuit in October 2023 alleging that several Motive products — including the Vehicle Gateway and AI Dashcam — infringed eleven patents. Motive successfully dismissed and defeated multiple claims throughout litigation, leaving four patents and ten claims for trial. Plaintiffs sought damages of over $100M in lost profits and royalties as well as an injunction.
From the outset, Motive was confident that its technology was fundamentally different, and the jury agreed, finding Motive did not infringe any of Omnitracs’ patents. The jury also recognized that two of the patents owned by XRS are well understood, routine, and conventional, the factual finding underlying patent ineligibility under 35 USC Sec. 101.
The King & Spalding trial team was Angela Tarasi, Jeff Mills, Mikaela Stone, Patrick Lafferty, Mark Zambarda, Andrew Whittaker, Zach Coots, Roy Falik, Ellen Min, Nick Sieger, Kaki Vessels, MK Kennedy, Eric Valuyev, and Jen Miller.