Can an Employee Take Your Company’s Trade Secrets to a Competing Business?

By Amanda Rydza | Published May 17, 2017 | Posted in Employment Issues, Employment Law, NDA, Risk Management, Trade Secrets | Tagged Tags: Anthony Levandowski, trade secret act, Trade Secrets, Uber, Waymo | Comments Off on Can an Employee Take Your Company’s Trade Secrets to a Competing Business?

On February 23, 2017, Waymo, LLC (owned by Google’s parent company), filed a lawsuit against Uber Technologies, Inc., Ottomotto LLC, and Otto Trucking, LLC. The basis of Waymo’s lawsuit is for violation of the defense of trade secret act. The three main questions raised by this lawsuit are: 1) Can an employee take a company’s Read More

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