Alphabet's Waymo, previously known as Google's self-driving car unit, is stepping up its legal attack on rival Uber Technologies, asking a court to block Uber from using technology allegedly stolen from Waymo against it in the race to develop self-driving cars. Waymo alleges that weeks before his departure from Waymo, Levandowski downloaded more than 14,000 proprietary files from a Waymo server. "Thus, adopting this infringing architecture gives Defendants a huge unearned cost advantage in their efforts to win the race to launch a commercially-viable self-driving car." And we have experience in trying things that do work, so we are just doing the things that do work and focus on that.' Some courts have recognized negative knowhow, knowing what things don’t work, as protected trade secrets," she said.

Source: Forbes March 10, 2017 22:50 UTC