Four Uber security managers are suing former Uber employee Richard Jacobs for claiming they stole trade secrets and spied on competitors in a $10 million defamation lawsuit filed in federal court Friday.
Read moreFacebook settled a trade secrets case mid-trial on Monday in order to focus on CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pivotal testimony before Congress regarding a growing data-mining scandal.
Read moreOn a day where Facebook defended itself in the continued fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the company quietly launched its defense against accusations of stealing trade secrets to build an advanced data center near the Arctic Circle.
Read moreSwipe dating app Bumble is suing the parent of rival app Tinder for $400 million, claiming it deviously took trade secrets under the guise of wanting to invest in the company, then turning around and suing Bumble for allegedly ripping off its app.
Read moreA panel of the Ninth Circuit indicated on Thursday it will revive virtual-reality company Total Recall’s lawsuit accusing Facebook-owned Oculus VR of stealing its design for a virtual-reality display.
Read moreThe absence of a verdict in the Waymo-Uber showdown, and what could have become precedence on how to balance an engineer’s right to work for a competitor with a company’s right to safeguard its trade secrets, means legal questions remain.
Read moreIn a surprise move on what was supposed to be the fifth day of a month-long trial over trade secrets and autonomous vehicles, Waymo announced Friday it had reached a settlement with Uber.
Read moreOn the fourth day of its trial against ride-hail giant Uber, autonomous car developer Waymo struggled to prove a trove of files stolen by a former engineer contained trade secrets for building the vehicles.
Read moreDuring his second day of testimony in the Waymo-Uber trade secrets trial, former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said the ride-hailing company and Google had a “little brother, big brother” relationship that soured after Uber launched its self-driving car venture with Carnegie Mellon University.
Read moreOn the second day of a trade-secrets war between Waymo and Uber, ousted Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick said he discussed buying a nonexistent company from Waymo’s lead self-driving engineer to speed his company’s development of the cars.
Read moreLawyers for Uber tried to convince a jury on the first day of a long-awaited trial on accusations it stole rival Waymo’s driverless car technology that Waymo’s motive for suing was to keep “its biggest competitor” from developing driverless cars for the ride-hailing market.
Read moreAttorneys for autonomous-vehicle rivals Uber and Waymo sparred with a federal judge on Tuesday over what they can tell a jury when a trial accusing Uber of stealing trade secrets begins next week, the culmination of a year-long case one lawyer called “the biggest in the history of Uber.”
Read moreFacebook will have to face British engineering firm BladeRoom Group in court over claims that the social media giant stole its design for a modular data center.
Read moreThe federal judge hearing the Uber-Waymo trade secrets war did not waver from his long-held belief in open courtrooms, denying Waymo’s bid for closed proceedings Thursday except for witnesses whose testimony “will truly necessitate courtroom closure.”
Read moreUber’s Chinese rival can forge ahead with a lawsuit accusing several of its former employees of stealing its trade secrets to start their own competing venture, a federal judge ruled.
Read moreUber faces a shareholder lawsuit over claims it stole self-driving car technology, which was filed on the same day the U.S. Department of Justice acknowledged it is investigating the company for criminal misconduct.
Read moreA federal judge on Monday appeared to walk back his earlier assessment that Uber concealed evidence that delayed a trial over allegations it stole autonomous vehicle trade secrets from rival Waymo.
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A federal judge on Wednesday told Uber’s in-house lawyer she could be in trouble for allegedly hiding key evidence in a case accusing Uber of stealing self-driving car technology from rival Waymo and delaying a high-stakes trial over the theft.
Read moreA federal judge on Tuesday indefinitely delayed a high-stakes trial over whether Uber stole trade secrets on self-driving vehicles from rival Waymo, after federal prosecutors revealed evidence obtained in a criminal probe that it may have done so.
Read moreA medical technology group sued Kaiser Permanente for $50 million on Wednesday, claiming the medical giant stole its trade secrets on wearable medical devices and shared them with its competitors.
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