October 25, 2017
Uber and other companies accused of using stolen Waymo LLC trade secrets to develop systems that allow self-driving cars to "see" told a California federal judge Wednesday that the Google affiliate shouldn't be allowed to ask permission to tell the jury about allegations that the defendants destroyed evidence.
October 24, 2017
Uber Technologies Inc. and Alphabet's Waymo LLC filed competing jury instruction proposals Tuesday heading into a December trial over the alleged theft of code behind the sensing systems in self-driving cars, with Waymo telling a California federal judge that no actual use of the material is required for a liability finding.
October 20, 2017
A California federal judge on Thursday rejected Google affiliate Waymo's latest bid to get its hands on Uber's self-driving car source code in its trade secrets suit, saying that a magistrate judge's recent decision calling the request "profoundly overbroad" was neither clearly wrong or contrary to law.
October 16, 2017
Waymo LLC can't get its hands on Uber's self-driving vehicle source code, a California federal magistrate judge said Monday, calling Waymo's attempt "profoundly overbroad" and lacking sufficient cause.
October 13, 2017
Uber urged a California federal judge Thursday not to force it to surrender its self-driving car source code to Waymo LLC, saying Alphabet Inc.'s self-driving car unit shouldn't be allowed to go on a "carte-blanche fishing expedition" to reinvent its entire case with just two months before trial.
October 11, 2017
With a trade secrets trial less than two months away, Waymo on Monday asked a California federal judge to make Uber Technologies Inc. hand over its self-driving car source code, saying it wants to compare it to code allegedly stolen by former Waymo employees.
October 03, 2017
U.S. District Judge William Alsup on Tuesday granted Waymo's request to delay the trial in its trade secret suit against Uber until December due to Uber's slow document production, but not before lashing out at counsel on both sides, saying he "cannot trust what they say."
October 02, 2017
A group of 11 media organizations asked a California federal judge not to boot them from the courtroom during the upcoming trial in Waymo and Uber's trade secrets dispute, arguing Monday that much of what Waymo is seeking to protect is already public.
September 29, 2017
Waymo, Uber and key figures in their trade secrets dispute won't be able to keep the public from seeing a 2016 due diligence report prepared for Uber as the ride-hailing giant weighed buying a self-driving vehicle company founded by a former Waymo employee, a California federal judge ruled Thursday.
September 27, 2017
U.S. District Judge William Alsup looked inclined Wednesday to exclude testimony from a Waymo expert witness pegging damages from Uber's alleged use of stolen self-driving car trade secrets at $1.86 billion, saying there may be a "fundamental flaw" in the expert's methodology and telling Waymo's attorney she could appeal his decision to the Federal Circuit.