In an interview with Forbes in October 2016 at Otto’s former headquarters in San Francisco shortly after it was purchased by Uber, he was adamant that none of its intellectual property came from his former employer. “We did not steal any Google IP,” Levandowski said.

Why did Google Sue Uber?

Shortly after the sale, Google’s self-driving unit, then called Waymo, filed a lawsuit against Uber for trade secret theft, alleging its acquisition of Otto allowed the company to gain access to sensitive and confidential Waymo technology Levandowski illegally took with him on his way out.

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