Waymo Puts Uber Lawyers in Hot Seat Over Trade-Secret Theft
- Alphabet unit claims law firm helped hide stolen information
- Ride-hailing firm maintains lawyers properly vetted engineer
Why Waymo Is Dropping Most Patent Claims in Uber Suit
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Waymo claims Uber Technologies Inc. had an accomplice in the theft of invaluable driverless technology trade secrets -- the ride-hailing giant’s own lawyers.
Uber relied heavily on attorneys at San Francisco’s Morrison & Foerster LLP, or MoFo, to suss out and contain any proprietary information that may have been taken by one of Waymo’s lead engineers, Anthony Levandowski, when he abruptly quit last year. He later joined Uber, bringing with him other former engineers from the Alphabet Inc. self-driving unit.