Waymo seeks court order against Uber over self-driving car technology
Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/201
Jessica Guynn , USA TODAY 7:31 p.m. ET March 10, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO — Waymo, the self-driving car division of Google-parent Alphabet, is seeking a court order to stop Uber from using trade secrets, including thousands of confidential files it alleges were stolen by a former Waymo employee.
Waymo says a preliminary injunction will "prevent defendants from misappropriating Waymo’s own technology to cheat and distort competition in this nascent market."
That technology, which Waymo says was developed over thousands of hours by researchers, engineers and designers, includes light detection and ranging technology known as LiDAR that helps self-driving cars sense their surroundings.
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Waymo sued Uber last month, alleging that former Waymo employee Anthony Levandowski secretly downloaded more than 14,000 confidential files shortly before he resigned in January 2016.
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