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August 27, 2019 06:47 pm

Former Google and Uber Engineer Indicted For Trade Secret Theft;

Former Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski was charged with stealing driverless technology from Alphabet's Waymo unit, resurrecting the intrigue of the biggest legal battle to grip Silicon Valley in recent memory. From a report: The 33-count indictment announced Tuesday by federal officials in San Jose, California, adds a new criminal chapter to the saga that hung over Waymo's civil claims of trade-secret theft against Uber. Even after the companies abruptly settled the litigation in the middle of a high-stakes trial last year, questions remained about the mysterious engineer at the center of the turmoil. "All of us have the right to change jobs," San Francisco U.S. Attorney David Anderson said at a press conference in San Jose. "None of us has the right to fill our pockets on the way out the door. Theft is not innovation." Levandowski, 39, voluntarily surrendered to authorities and faces a maximum of 10 years in prison if he's convicted. Anderson said the government's investigation is ongoing, but he declined to discuss the probe further. Levandowski "didn't steal anything from anyone," his lawyer, Miles Ehrlich, said in a statement. The indictment "rehashed claims discredited in a civil case that settled more than a year and a half ago."

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