Three days after Levandowski left, Uber's lawyers were discussing potential legal issues around buying Levandowski's yet-to-be launched firm, according to discovery discussions for the case.
During the hearing, which began with dry descriptions of laser patents and ended with testy confrontations between the two companies' lawyers, Waymo lawyers said they had received a log of documents from Uber at 11:00 pm Tuesday night that was 700 pages long.
Included in the documents: a log including emails about providing legal analysis or advice on possible due diligence about the potential acquisition of Otto, which wouldn't launch out of stealth mode until May. In August, when Uber announced it was buying the start-up, it tapped Levandowski to run its nascent self-driving car efforts.
Ref: https://apple.news/Ap19O2NukSN6VltivwhxO8A
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Uber mulled risk of legal suit with Google months before it bought start-up at heart of legal battle
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This news is also pretty damning for uber. It shows that they knew of these conflicts if interest not just before they acquired Otto, but before Otto *existed*.