before jury selection was set to start, the trial has now been pushed back again, after revelations of a letter detailing Uber's efforts to spy on its rivals. The 37-page letter was sent by a lawyer for Richard Jacobs, a former employee, to Angela Padilla, Uber's deputy general counsel in May or June.
Date: Feb 12, 2018
Category: Business
Source: Google
Waymo V. Uber: What You Need To Know About the High-Stakes Self-Driving Tech Trial
Former Uber security analyst Richard Jacobs testifies in court that his lawyer sent a 37-page letter to Uber in-house lawyer Angela Padilla describing an organization within Uber called marketplace analytics that he said exists for the purpose of acquiring trade secrets, code base and competitive in
The letter was sent by Jacobs' lawyers after he left the company. Jacobs claimed he was documenting abuses to become a whistleblower, but Uber's deputy general counsel Angela Padilla called the latter "extortionist." Uber eventually paid Jacobs a $4.5 million settlement.
Date: Feb 05, 2018
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
A judge has granted Alphabet's request for a delay in the Uber self-driving trial
Judge Alsup responded by subpoenaing Ubers deputy general counsel Angela Padilla and Ubers former global security officer Richard Jacobs to testify during a pre-trial hearing on Tuesday. The pre-trial hearing is currently in session. Alsup has yet to set a new trial date.
Date: Nov 28, 2017
Category: Business
Source: Google
Uber's security practices come under fire (again) after new evidence comes to light in Alphabet lawsuit
s important to remember Jacobs allegations are just that. In fact, during his testimony, Jacobs walked back some of the claims in the letter, and said that he came to a settlement with Uber after his attorney originally sent that letter to the companys deputy general counsel, Angela Padilla.
Date: Nov 28, 2017
Category: Business
Source: Google
Uber fires ex-Google boss at center of self-driving suit
'Over the last few months Uber has provided significant evidence to the court to demonstrate that our self-driving technology has been built independently,' Angela Padilla, Uber's associate general counsel for employment and litigation, wrote in an email to employees,according to the New York Times
Waymos injunction motion is a misfire: there is no evidence that any of the 14,000 files in question ever touched Ubers servers and Waymos assertion that our multi-lens LiDAR is the same as their single-lens LiDAR is clearly false," Angela Padilla, associate general counsel said in a statement.
Date: Apr 07, 2017
Source: Google
Uber exec invokes the Fifth Amendment in Google patent squabble
driverless car technology wasnt stolen from Waymo, as the lawsuit alleges. We are very confident that Waymos claims against Uber are baseless and that Anthony Levandowski has not used any files from Google in his work with Otto or Uber, Ubers associate general counsel Angela Padilla said.