Seyfarth Shaw LLP - Robert Milligan and Darren W. Dummit; Self-Driving to Federal Prison: The Trade Secret Theft Saga of Anthony Levandowski Continues
"Judge Aslup, while steadfastly respectful of Levandowski as a good person and as a brilliant man who the world would learn a lot listening to, nevertheless found prison time to be the best available deterrent to engineers and employees privy to trade secrets worth billions of dollars to competitors: “You’re giving the green light to every future engineer to steal trade secrets,” he told Levandowski’s attorneys. “Prison time is the answer to that.” To further underscore the importance of deterring similar behavior in the high stakes tech world, Judge Aslup required Levandowski to give the aforementioned public speeches describing how he went to prison."
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Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
A former Uber executive was ordered to pay Google $179 million. Then he filed for bankruptcy.; The Washington Post, March 4, 2020
Anthony Levandowski was accused of stealing trade secrets on self-driving technology
"Anthony Levandowski, who once ran Uber’s self-driving car unit, was ordered Wednesday to pay $179 million to rival Google, prompting the software engineer to file for bankruptcy protection.
The
enormous award, which was approved by a Superior Court judge in San
Francisco and was confidential but disclosed in a Securities and
Exchange Commission filing, casts new light on one of Silicon Valley’s
most heated dramas. It is also another blow to Levandowski, once a
rising star in the tech industry who now faces criminal charges for allegedly possessing trade secrets that belong to Google."
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