> Ron settled last month with Google for $9.7 million.
Smart guy.
Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google
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Re: Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google
#12A friend of mine heard his personal attorney speak at a law school class. Even his attorney thought Anthony was a “jackass” for stealing the IP; his defense fell on him being an engineer who, at the end of the day, just wanted to build cool shit and wasn’t malicious.
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#13Seems out of proportion given 1) Google was willing to settle for [1]:https://threatpost.com/equifax-settles-class-action-lawsuit/...
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#14Levandowski just filed for bankruptcy saying he has less than $100M in assets . Does anyone know if he will only pay a percentage or is only delaying this by kicking the can down the road to another court ? I would be highly surprised if his employer (Uber) shouldered any of the this
Prob gets some relief and payment gets restructured. You can’t just sit on 100 mill and declare bankruptcy and go Scott Free.
Re: Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google
#15A friend of mine heard his personal attorney speak at a law school class. Even his attorney thought Anthony was a “jackass” for stealing the IP; his defense fell on him being an engineer who, at the end of the day, just wanted to build cool shit and wasn’t malicious.
Just a regular guy with assets somewhere between 50 and 100 million dollars.
Re: Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google
#16Google has to get the Andy Rubin money back somehow.
Re: Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google
#17Seems out of proportion given 1) Google was willing to settle for [1]: https://threatpost.com/equifax-settles-class-action-lawsuit/...
The difference is that Lewandowski realized the value of the IP with the sale of the company. If the jury decides trade secrets made up x% of the company, he owes that percent of his proceeds. IMO, IANAL.
Re: Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google
#18Seems out of proportion given 1) Google was willing to settle for [1]: https://threatpost.com/equifax-settles-class-action-lawsuit/...
Does it? The guy says he has $50M-$100M and it seems like most (all?) of that came from selling Otto to Uber. And he intentionally didn't settle. Seems like if the value of the sell was based on Google's IP which he had contracted to not share, then this is not really an unexpected outcome?
Re: Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google
#19It's been amusing to hear his story. Starting a church/religion was my favorite part.
I bet Google and a bunch of other companies are excited about the message this sends to other arrogant engineers who might be considering leaving and building new companies with ideas developed at their prior places of employment. That precedent is worth billions if not trillions.