Google Takes Aim at Engineer Left Untouched by Suit Against Uber
- Anthony Levandowski’s trial draws Uber back into ‘the soup’
- Ride-hailing giant may be on the hook for $120 million or more
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Uber Technologies Inc.’s settlement of Waymo’s trade-secrets lawsuit in February left a key piece unresolved: the role played by Anthony Levandowski, the engineer at the center of the alleged theft of critical self-driving technology.
Starting Monday, Levandowski goes to trial to defend himself -- and at least $120 million in incentive payments he collected from the search giant before he defected to Uber. He’s fighting Google’s claims that he breached his contract as one of the leaders of its autonomous vehicle unit, now called Waymo, by recruiting from its ranks for his rival company, Otto.