Motorola Unit Accused of Ripping Off Police Body-Cam Technology

Motorola Solutions Inc. has been sued on allegations its WatchGuard Video Inc. unit ripped off patented technology that automatically triggers police dashboard and body cameras and prevents them from overwriting critical video footage.

Stellar LLC accused WatchGuard’s Vista WiFi Body cameras and in-car video systems of infringing designs that utilize circular buffers and write-protection features to let wearable and vehicle-mounted mobile cameras wirelessly upload video for storage automatically while continuing to record, according to a complaint filed Monday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

Stellar contends its hands-free system solves a problem with earlier body ...