Litigation
Jan. 28, 2017
Tesla alleges self-driving data theft by defecting employee
A pair of managers from Google Inc. and Tesla Motors Inc. are accused of starting a competing self-driving startup with Tesla engineers and data.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Two aspiring startup founders have been accused of stealing proprietary self-driving testing data and attempting to poach engineers from former employers Google Inc. and Tesla Motors Inc. in the hopes of launching a competing venture, according to a breach of contract suit filed by Tesla on Thursday.
Christopher Urmson, who quit his job as head of Google's Self-Driving Car Project in Augu...
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