The U.S. DOJ arrested an ex-Google engineer today on 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets.
about a year later. Waymo claimed in the lawsuit that drawings of 3-D sensors known as Lidar for Uber's self-driving car project revealed a "striking resemblance" to Waymo's own designs. The suit also alleged Levandowski took "extraordinary efforts to raid Waymo's design server and then conceal his activities," after downloading over 14,000 confidential and proprietary files before resigning.
In response to the new charges, Levandowski's lawyers Miles Ehrlich and Ismail Ramsey said in a statement that the indictment "rehashes claims already discredited in a civil case that settled more than a year and a half ago. The downloads at issue occurred while Anthony was still working at Google — when he and his team were authorized to use the information. None of these supposedly secret files ever went to Uber or any other company.
"The criminal charges filed against Anthony relate exclusively to Lidar and do not in any way involve Pronto's ground-breaking technology," Pronto said in a statement. "Of course, we are fully supportive of Anthony and his family during this period."post announcing his new company, Levandowski mused on his return to the autonomous vehicle industry. Levandowski wrote he had "been painted into a villainous caricature" and "had lots of time for introspection.
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