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2019: Charge of theft of a trade secret of Waymo
At the end of August, 2019 charge of theft of a trade secret for benefit of Uber was brought to the former engineer of Google Anthony Lewandowski. In the company it worked on unmanned vehicles.
As reported on the website of the U.S. Department of Justice, several months prior to Lewandowski's dismissal loaded from the protected databases of Google technical, production and the business files connected with lidars and self-governed machines. The downloaded archives included schemes of printed circuit boards, to the installation instruction and testing of lidars and the document of internal tracking.
After leaving Lewandowski's Google founded the Otto company which was engaged in development of pilotless cargo transportation. Afterwards Uber purchased Otto for $680 million.
 | All of us have the right to change work location. But anybody of us has no right to fill the pockets to themselves at the exit from a prior workplace. Theft is not an innovation — the federal prosecutor David Anderson said. |  |
Charges on 33 episodes of theft and attempts are brought to Anthony Lewandowski. Charge asks 10 years of prison and a fine of $250 thousand. Listenings will begin on September 4, 2019, till this time of Lewandowski is bailed in $300 thousand and the real estate for $3 million. He does not admit the guilt.
| | More than ten years Anthony Lewandowski is the leading expert in the industry of development of technologies for pilotless cars, and business of the U.S. Government is "rephrasing" of the discredited statements. My client stole nothing, and we look forward to prove his innocence in court — the lawyer of the defendant reported Reuters agency in the courtroom. | |
According to protection, did not transfer any data of Uber of Lewandowski, and he had the right to copy data as directed one of project teams.
Withdrew the American and French passports from Lewandowski and obliged to carry the GPS device announcing to law enforcement authorities its location on a leg.[1]
2020: Adjudgement for theft of commercial secrets about pilotless cars
On August 4, 2020 it became known that district court of the USA in San Francisco sentenced the ex-engineer of Google Anthony Lewandowski to 18 months of prison on the case of theft of commercial secrets for benefit of Uber company in which the defendant held the high-ranking executive position.
According to Bloomberg, Anthony Lewandowski asked court about pardon, he insisted on appointment to it year house arrest in the house which is in the District of Marin (USA). According to Lewandowski's statements, the pneumonia transferred him earlier can lead to death in case of infection with a coronavirus in prison. However, the prosecutor's office stated that when choosing other measure of punishment it will not be possible to avoid similar crimes in the future. It is known that the court reduced the term requested by charge by 9 months. The former engineer will serve sentence after in prisons distribution of COVID-19 stops. In addition to imprisonment, Lewandowski should pay $756.499 of compensation of Waymo company ("subsidiary" of Google) and also a penalty in the amount of $95 thousand.
The judge William Alsup repeatedly showed Lewandowski's admiration. He considers him the brilliant engineer and does not hide that it is hard to pronounce such sentence for it.
The judge noted that punishment without imprisonment would mean "green light to any future brilliant engineer on theft of a trade secret", comparing Lewandowski's act, from "the competitor who is thought over by strategy". William Alsup noted that the act made by Lewandowski is "the biggest crime connected with a trade secret which he ever met".
| | Anthony Lewandowski's plunder of commercial secrets of autonomous technologies was extremely destructive and harmful to Waymo, representing treachery, and effects most likely would be even more deplorable if an incident remained unnoticed, - noted in Waymo.[2][3] | |
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