Anthony Levandowski, a pioneer in self-driving car technology, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for swiping upwards of 14,000 proprietary documents from his former employer Google before he left to start his own company.
Read moreA federal grand jury in California has indicted the former head of Uber’s self-driving vehicle initiative on charges of stealing Google technology and siphoning it to the ride-hail giant, prosecutors said Tuesday.
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 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 moreGoogle on Thursday sued Alaska-based trust manager Peak Trust in state court, claiming a former engineer in Google’s autonomous vehicle division Waymo uses Peak to “facilitate his illicit involvement in competing side businesses” at the heart of arbitration proceedings between Google and the engineer – and Waymo’s bitter trade-secrets war with Uber.
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 moreAttorneys for Uber acknowledged Tuesday the ride-hail giant knew its embattled former engineer took proprietary information from Google’s autonomous-vehicle arm Waymo before resigning to build self-driving cars for Uber.
Read moreA federal judge said Thursday that Waymo and Uber could face a second trade secrets trial over self-driving car technology after Waymo asked to litigate additional trade secrets during a planned December jury trial.
Read moreA federal judge on Tuesday agreed to push back a highly anticipated trade-secrets showdown between Waymo and Uber to give Waymo more time to review a trove of newly produced evidence following Uber’s “elaborate scheme” to keep from handing it over.
Read moreCiting public access to Waymo’s trade-secrets lawsuit against Uber over driverless-car technology, a federal judge denied several motions for protective orders over hotly contested evidence Thursday.
Read moreA federal judge signaled Wednesday that Uber will get to tell a jury that a closely watched trade-secrets lawsuit is a sham, filed to eliminate the Silicon Valley ride-hailing company as a competitor from the nascent but potentially flush driverless car industry.
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