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Google parent company Alphabet is seeking at least $2.6 billion from Uber for allegedly stealing self-driving car trade secrets from Waymo:
Alphabet thinks Uber should pay $2.6 billion for allegedly stealing a single trade secret.
Alphabet is in court with Uber today to convince a judge to delay the Oct. 10 trial in its self-driving lawsuit against the ride-hail company. But during the hearing, an Uber attorney said that Alphabet is seeking $2.6 billion in damages for just one of the nine trade secrets the company is claiming a former Uber executive stole.
Before today's hearing, the amount of damages Alphabet wanted a court to award them was not public and had been redacted from court filings.
In its opposition to Alphabet's request for a trial delay, Uber claims Alphabet is simply asking for a "do-over" because its allegations that an executive stole files and brought them to Uber has weakened.
Also at Reuters, Ars Technica, Engadget, The Street, MarketWatch, and TechCrunch.
(Score: 1) by daver!west!fmc on Friday September 22 2017, @09:25PM
This isn't protected by patent, it is one of several claimed trade secrets that the Alphabet/Google/Waymo hydra allege were copied/shared by an ex-Google employee (whose startups they had bought) who had left their employ, and whose new startup had been bought by Uber.
The hydra does seem to think it's the one to do some cleaning up, e.g. its seizure of the dailystormer.com domain.