{"id":57393,"date":"2017-05-15T19:42:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T02:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/uber-must-return-stolen-waymo-files-can-continue-self-driving-work-u-s-judge"},"modified":"2017-05-20T09:01:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T16:01:01","slug":"uber-must-return-stolen-waymo-files-can-continue-self-driving-work-u-s-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/uber-must-return-stolen-waymo-files-can-continue-self-driving-work-u-s-judge","title":{"rendered":"Uber must return stolen Waymo files, can continue self-driving work: U.S. judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uber-must-return-stolen-waymo-files-can-continue-self-driving-work-u-s-judge.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] must promptly return stolen confidential files to Alphabet Inc\u2019s (GOOGL.O) Waymo self-driving car unit, a federal judge ruled, while stopping short of shutting down the ride-services company\u2019s autonomous car program.<\/p>\n<p>The judge wrote that Uber knew, or should have known, that an ex-Waymo engineer it later hired had taken Waymo files potentially containing trade secrets, and that some of the intellectual property had \u201cseeped into\u201d Uber\u2019s own development efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling by U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco, unsealed on Monday, marked a blow to Uber, which is engaged in a battle with Waymo to dominate the fast-growing field of self-driving cars expected to revolutionize the automotive industry.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-uber-alphabet-ruling-idUSKCN18B1W6?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=5919fbdf04d30102fde411aa&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook\">http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-uber-alphabet-ruling-idUSK...e=facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] must promptly return stolen confidential files to Alphabet Inc\u2019s (GOOGL.O) Waymo self-driving car unit, a federal judge ruled, while stopping short of shutting down the ride-services company\u2019s autonomous car program. The judge wrote that Uber knew, or should have known, that an ex-Waymo engineer it later hired had taken [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57544,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57393\/revisions\/57544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}