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On February 5, 2018, the day after the real Super Bowl, the Super Bowl of trade secrets trials started in federal court in San Francisco. You might have heard of some of the parties. The defendant was Uber. You may not have heard of the plaintiff, Waymo, but you probably know Waymo’s owner, a little company called Google. The issue in a nutshell: did Google engineer Anthony Levandowski steal Google’s confidential self-driving car technology—they call it “LiDAR”—and take it to Uber? This is the type of “departing employee” case I like to handle (on a slightly smaller scale), so it […]

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