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By: Waymo v. Uber – Anthony Levandowski Convicted – Do Not Pass Go!
Its been over three years since Judge Alsup’s early rulings demonstrated his concern that Waymo’s former star engineer, Anthony Levandowski, took Waymo’s proprietary information to Uber and, today, August 4, 2020, Judge Alsup sentenced Levandowski to 18-months in
A federal court in Los Angeles dismissed the plaintiff’s trade secrets claims in Aqua Connection Inc. v. Code Rebel, LLC [pdf], despite the fact that the plaintiff (Aqua Connect) alleged that its trade secrets were improperly obtained through reverse engineering in violation of a user agreement.
In the latest twist in the developing law regarding the preemptive scope of California’s Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA)1 a California federal court in Amron International Diving Supply, Inc. v. Hydrolinx Diving Communication, Inc.2 (“Amron”) recently issued a decision reinvigorating the growing tension between courts addressing the issue of UTSA preemption – a tension that, unfortunately, is likely to continue into the foreseeable future.
