By Joel Rosenblatt, Bloomberg News
The judge presiding overWaymo’s trade-secrets fight withUber Technologies Inc.said it seems “overwhelmingly clear” the engineer at the center of the case took confidential files but there’s no “smoking gun” proof the ride-hailing company illegally used the information.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup told lawyers Wednesday he’s torn over what to do in a “hypothetical situation where there’s this threat of use” ofAlphabet Inc.’s proprietary information, “but it’s not yet proven.”
The judge’s comments cast doubt on whether he’ll grantWaymo’s requestto freeze Uber’s efforts to develop a fully ...
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