“Something Happened That Seemed Strange at First”

In its remaining open case, HALEY IP LLC faces a fully-briefed motion to dismiss in which defendant Samsung (Harman International Industries) challenges the asserted claims of the sole patent-in-suit as ineligibly drawn to the abstract idea of “observing whether a driver is properly looking at the road”. Harman points District Judge Rodney Gilstrap to a previous invalidation in the Northern District of California of claims from a related patent. HALEY IP escaped that ruling when, per defendant Motive Technologies, “something happened that seemed strange at first”—and, given other more recent events, it looks as if HALEY IP might just be building another “escape”.