Before leaving Google, Anthony Levandowski downloaded Google’s self-driving car technology. Levandowski, who helped steer Google’s self-driving car project before landing at Uber, was also ordered to pay more than US$850,000. Before leaving Google, though, Levandowski downloaded a trove of Google’s self-driving car technology, resulting in him facing 33 counts of intellectual property theft. The lawyers argued Levandowski deserved some leniency because there was never any evidence that he used Google’s trade secrets while overseeing Uber’s self-driving car division. “Levandowski’s actions suggest he wanted to be seen as the singular inventor of the self-driving car, the way Alexander Graham Bell is credited with inventing the telephone,” Anderson wrote.-AP

Source: The Standard August 05, 2020 05:26 UTC