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Uber must turn over information about its acquisition of Otto to Waymo

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Re: Uber must turn over information about its acquisition of Otto to Waymo

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Post by tyingq »

Operyl wrote: post #2

And the plot thickens. If Waymo is correct, and such a contract was signed, they seem to be as good as toast.

Two documents in play...

The "Uber agrees to defend Levandowski" document and the Uber-Otto due diligence documentation.

Levandowski asked for the former to be redacted, was denied. The article says it was signed just a few days after quitting his job at Google.

Re: Uber must turn over information about its acquisition of Otto to Waymo

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Post by ethbro »

rodionos wrote: post #3

It's high time for mods to launch ubernews, they are in the spotlight every single day. 71 submissions last week [0]. 0: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=uber&sort=byDate&dateRange=pas...

Were you on Slashdot when SCO was ongoing? If not, this is what a corporate titan proxy war looks like in the news cycle.

And it's objectively defensible. The outcome of this lawsuit will shape what an incredibly important future technology looks like and who controls it.

Re: Uber must turn over information about its acquisition of Otto to Waymo

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Post by Operyl »

tyingq wrote: post #4
Operyl wrote: post #2

And the plot thickens. If Waymo is correct, and such a contract was signed, they seem to be as good as toast.

Two documents in play... The "Uber agrees to defend Levandowski" document and the Uber-Otto due diligence documentation. Levandowski asked for the former to be redacted, was denied. The article says it was signed just a few days after quitting his job at Google.

Yeah, sorry should've been a bit more specific I guess. I was referring to the "agree to defend Levandowski" document.

Re: Uber must turn over information about its acquisition of Otto to Waymo

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Post by stupidhn »

ethbro wrote: post #6
rodionos wrote: post #3

It's high time for mods to launch ubernews, they are in the spotlight every single day. 71 submissions last week [0]. 0: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=uber&sort=byDate&dateRange=pas...

Were you on Slashdot when SCO was ongoing? If not, this is what a corporate titan proxy war looks like in the news cycle. And it's objectively defensible. The outcome of this lawsuit will shape what an incredibly important future technology looks like and who controls it.

Yeah, I get that reading most of the stories feels like rehashed gossip rags. But it's the meta that's cool to me; this is a real life battle of technology behemoths with hefty repercussions, and the media is part of the game. It's cool to watch it play out.

Re: Uber must turn over information about its acquisition of Otto to Waymo

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Post by bitmapbrother »

Perhaps this is standard practice, in the valley, to make the company that acquired your company defend you in the event that the acquisition resulted in a lawsuit, but this revelation just adds another red flag to the already long list of red flags that Uber ignored when acquiring Otto. IMO, Uber clearly knew what he did, either through disclosure or due diligence, and disregarded it. Considering their company culture of playing fast and loose with the rules until you get caught this is not surprising.

>"Waymo has claimed that Levandowski signed an agreement with Uber’s lawyers just a few days after quitting his job at Google, requiring Uber to defend him if the company’s acquisition of Otto resulted in a lawsuit."

>"Mr. Levandowski argues that he is entitled to relief under the Fifth Amendment because production of the unredacted privilege log could potentially incriminate him. We are not persuaded that the district court erred in its ruling requiring defendants to produce an unredacted privilege log,” the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled."

>"The order also opens the door for Waymo to request a copy of the due diligence report that Uber commissioned while it was in the process of acquiring Otto. Waymo has claimed that the due diligence report could contain evidence that Uber knew Otto was using stolen technology"

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