Bloomberg Law
Feb. 5, 2018, 6:29 PM UTC

For Waymo, Rubber Meets Road as Trial Against Uber Starts

Joel Rosenblatt

Waymo has spent almost a year accusing Uber Technologies Inc. of an unconscionable theft of its hard-won technology. Now the Alphabet Inc. unit needs to deliver proof.

On Monday, the companies faced off before a jury in San Francisco federal court over an alleged heist that has fascinated Silicon Valley from the moment Waymo filed its lawsuit last February.

“This case is about two competitors where one of the competitors decided they need to win at all costs, that losing was not an option,” Charles Verhoeven, Waymo’s lead lawyer, said in his opening argument. “In this case that meant taking ...

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