US government charges Anthony Levandowski, a former star engineer at Google and Uber, with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of Google trade secrets
this time in criminal court Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : Former Waymo lidar lead Anthony Levandowski charged with stealing trade secrets Sasha Lekach / Mashable : Former Google and Uber exec faces...
Waymo v. Uber begins with opening slides; Waymo claims Levandowski stole trade secrets, Uber says Alphabet upset over Otto acquisition and Levandowski hire
The trade secrets lawsuit between Uber and Alphabet's self-driving arm Waymo began today. — Uber and Waymo are finally having their day in court.
Uber's Otto due diligence report has been made public as part of Uber v. Waymo lawsuit
Alphabet had been fighting to get ahold of this document for months over the course of its litigation against Uber. — A report that Alphabet wants to use in its lawsuit against Uber was made public ...
US federal appeals court denies Uber's request to move Waymo trial to private arbitration, says Uber must produce due diligence report from Otto acquisition
Jan Wolfe / Reuters :
Texts between Travis Kalanick and Anthony Levandowski surface in Waymo-Uber court case, covering thoughts on Tesla, Otto acquisition, DMV probe, more
Mark Harris / IEEE Spectrum :
Judge orders Uber to hand over to Waymo unredacted term sheet with Otto
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch :
Judge says Waymo has yet to offer “smoking gun” that Uber knew of stolen docs after Waymo said Levandowski made deal with Uber, took 9.7GB data
valued at $250M— the day after he left Google. Biz Carson / @bizcarson : Uber spox now says stock grant was back-dated from acquisition. Uber lawyers haven't addressed it though in court http://read.b...
In setback for Uber, court denies Levandowski's request to use Fifth Amendment to prevent full disclosure of documents concerning Uber's purchase of Otto
Kate Conger / TechCrunch :
Alphabet's Waymo sues Otto and parent company Uber for trade secret theft, unfair competition, and patent infringement, claiming Otto founder took LiDAR designs
Johana Bhuiyan / Recode :
Alphabet's Waymo sues Otto and parent company Uber for trade secret theft, unfair competition, and patent infringement, claiming Otto founder took LiDAR designs
The Alphabet subsidiary is accusing its former employee, Otto co-founder Anthony Levandowski, of downloading 14,000 confidential files before he left the company.