BREAKING: Ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski indicted over allegedly taking trade secrets to Uber

[tacobell fan]

• The U.S. Department of Justice announced a criminal indictment against ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski.
• The indictment charges Levandowski with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets.
• The government alleges Levandowski downloaded thousands of confidential files from Google’s self-driving car project before resigning and eventually creating a startup that was acquired by Uber.

[Spartan]

[Spartan]

vadu create chesina company lo autonomous car was first in US to go cross-country in autonomous mode.

[tacobell fan]

6 minutes ago, Spartan said:

vadu create chesina company lo autonomous car was first in US to go cross-country in autonomous mode.

Justify  trade secrets sitti uncle 

[DBgirl]

Ela telisindabba google ki e vishyam 🤔

[Spartan]

2 minutes ago, tacobell fan said:

Justify insider trading sitti uncle 

who did

[tacobell fan]

Just now, Spartan said:

who did

Google Claim's know, i meant Trade secrets 

[Spartan]

Just now, DBgirl said:

Ela telisindabba google ki e vishyam 🤔

straight forward kada..andulo doubt emundi.

vadu Waymo related docs download chesi..malli ade industry lo company open chesadu.

default lawsuit file chestaru companies...once the probe opens anni baitaki ostai..

 

[Spartan]

Just now, tacobell fan said:

Google Claim's know, i meant Trade secrets 

insider trading wrong term here.

vadu chesindi trade secret breach kada.

[tacobell fan]

Just now, Spartan said:

straight forward kada..andulo doubt emundi.

vadu Waymo related docs download chesi..malli ade industry lo company open chesadu.

default lawsuit file chestaru companies...once the probe opens anni baitaki ostai..

 

For instance, you are the brain behind the project and you resigned and went to another company, your idea can't be implemented? Just asking. 

[Spartan]

Just now, tacobell fan said:

For instance, you are the brain behind the project and you resigned and went to another company, your idea can't be implemented? Just asking. 

when u r working for a company and have an idea,

all companies have policy that it should be patented on name of both employee and employer..

if you fail to do so, then company has right to claim it, no matter even if you were not working in that field.

 

[tacobell fan]

Just now, Spartan said:

insider trading wrong term here.

vadu chesindi trade secret breach kada.

I corrected know. But Trade breach claims ki human angle undi kada. Download chesi ala dorikipodam is different issue. 

[r2d2]

1 minute ago, tacobell fan said:

For instance, you are the brain behind the project and you resigned and went to another company, your idea can't be implemented? Just asking. 

it depends on the severance terms 

[Spartan]

Just now, r2d2 said:

it depends on the severance terms 

ilanti hot technology lo, all companies default to patent right on any idea of employee.

[tacobell fan]

3 minutes ago, Spartan said:

when u r working for a company and have an idea,

all companies have policy that it should be patented on name of both employee and employer..

if you fail to do so, then company has right to claim it, no matter even if you were not working in that field.

Tech lo idi nothing because iOS/Android works very similar in terms of functionality and both compaines poached each companies employees many many times. Even in auto industry, Farady Future poached many Tesla employees and vice versa. Patenting idea is only to an extent. What happened to classic Apple-Samsung law suite on elastic rubber band kind of touch? It's inevitable know.