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SAN FRANCISCO—In a packed courtroom on the first day of the blockbuster Waymo v. Uber trade secrets trial, both sides presented their opening arguments. Charles Verhoeven, Waymo's top lawyer ...
The Uber-Waymo trial started on Monday morning. The case will determine whether Uber is guilty of stealing intellectual property from Waymo, a self-driving car company that spun out of Google.
Under the terms of the settlement, Waymo dropped its claims that Uber stole key trade secret technology from Waymo when it hired former Waymo wünder-engineer Anthony Levandowski and acquired Otto ...
The lines from one of Uber's court filings are more than mere hyperbole. Two of the largest companies in the self-driving-car sector have been mud-slinging since Waymo, a recent spin-out of Google ...
Waymo has drawn a sordid picture, contending that Levandowski heisted thousands of documents containing Google trade secrets before defecting to Uber. Waymo says Levandowski conspired with former ...
During a tense exchange, Judge William Alsup allowed an Uber lawyer to disclose that Alphabet’s Waymo is seeking $2.6 billion for the highest value of a series of stolen trade secrets.
Uber told a federal judge Friday that it didn’t use stolen trade secrets ... Uber. Waymo had asked U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup to halt Uber’s driverless car project until the case ...
After less than a week in court, Uber and Waymo have settled their legal dispute over stolen trade secrets. As part of the settlement, Alphabet-owned Waymo will receive Uber equity worth a ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Waymo and Uber settled their legal fight Friday, nearly a year after Waymo first accused the ride-hailing company of plotting to steal important self-driving car technology.
SAN FRANCISCO – In a sudden end to an increasingly bitter public skirmish over self-driving car trade secrets, Uber settled a lawsuit Friday brought by Waymo, Google's self-driving car company ...
Still, if Waymo can prove that Uber is liable and improperly used its trade secrets, Uber could be on the hook for billions of dollars—potentially a sizeable blow to a company that has already ...
The absence of a verdict in the Waymo-Uber showdown, ... precedence on how to balance an engineer's right to work for a competitor with a company's right to safeguard its trade secrets, ... The ...