Ex-Uber Engineer Levandowski Publicly Rebuts Theft Claims
- Former Googler speaks about trade secrets case for first time
- Engineer faces U.S. judge who suggested the criminal probe
Anthony Levandowski exits federal court in San Jose, California on Aug. 27.
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Former Uber Technologies Inc. engineer Anthony Levandowski broke his long silence about allegations that he stole driverless-vehicle technology from Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo unit to say that he didn’t do it.
For the better part of a year, Levandowski was the fulcrum of Waymo’s lawsuit against Uber. Lawyers, colleagues and executives called as witnesses and even the judge handling the case speculated about the engineer’s motives after he abruptly left Google in 2016 to join Uber, allegedly taking coveted trade secrets with him. The case that supposedly hinged on his actions settled last year without Levandowski ever publicly speaking a word about it.