Judge: Waymo may be in “a world of trouble” if it can’t prove actual harm by Uber
Enlarge / Autodesk VRED Design 2017. (credit: Waymo)
SAN FRANCISCO-At a court hearing on Wednesday, US District Judge William Alsup questioned whether Waymo can really show the harm from Uber's alleged trade secret theft.
Waymo has been ordered to submit within a month a detailed description of how it has been harmed. The case is rapidly moving ahead toward an October trial date. If the trial actually takes place, it will elevate what has already become the highest-profile lawsuit related to the rapidly accelerating self-driving car industry.
Google's Waymo division sued Uber back in February, alleging that one of its own former engineers, Anthony Levandowski, stole 14,000 proprietary files and took them to his new startup, Otto (which was quickly acquired by Uber). However, Uber says it never received them and so it couldn't have, and didn't, implement them into its own products, services, or prototypes.
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