Uber Threatens to Fire Engineer at Center of Waymo Lawsuit
- Levandowski must comply or may face termination, lawyer says
- Uber maintains it hasn’t stolen Waymo’s trade secrets
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Uber Technologies Inc., under pressure from a court order in its battle with Alphabet Inc. over driverless technology, threatened to fire the engineer accused of taking files from his former employer if he doesn’t help the company obey the judge’s requests.
Uber asked Anthony Levandowski to cooperate in the investigation into the allegedly stolen material or be terminated, according to a May 15 letter from Uber General Counsel Salle Yoo. Levandowski voluntarily stepped away from any role pertaining to the so-called lidar technology that was under development when he worked for Alphabet’s Waymo unit.