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Apr 12, 2017 4 Comments

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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    Levandowski is so fucked.
    Apr 12, 2017 2
    • How about Uber? Could they technically wipe their hands off this, if they dont find any stolen files on employee machines, except the one file they found so far?
      Apr 13, 2017
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      Doubt it. Levandowski is the head of their self driving car program and there's already evidence that he has the stolen docs. They can't just distance themselves from one employee who happens to be the dude running the show.

      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*.
      Apr 13, 2017
  • Lol, if you read Kalanick's old blog, you can tell exactly what he would've been thinking. "Hustle baby! Fear is the disease, hustle is the antidote!"
    Apr 13, 2017 0