Anthony Levandowski may have taken 14,000 documents from Waymo, but this is no open-and-shut case, writes tpoletti.
The trade-secret theft case that initially captured Silicon Valley’s attention back in 2017 returned as a major criminal action Tuesday, but with much tougher legal standards for the government.
Based on evidence collected and presented in the civil trial, which started with a bang but ended prematurely with a whimper, Levandowski definitely took the files at the heart of the charges. But the case, the first one by a new corporate-fraud strike force in the northern district of California, is not as open and shut as the government would like it to sound.
Levandowski’s attorney, Miles Ehrlich, told reporters in San Jose that the defense will have an answer for each and every allegation, point by point. “The judge kept kicking out Waymo’s arguments as to what was a trade secret,” Roberts of SCU said. “A lot of Waymo’s arguments were narrowed substantially.”But Roberts cautioned that no conclusions should be made from the civil trial. Levandowski was not a party in the civil lawsuit, as his departure from Waymo was covered by an arbitration clause, and he was expected to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights if he had been subpoenaed to testify.
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