Intellectual Property,
Corporate
May 9, 2017
Not your garden variety trade secrets case
When one of the lawyers appearing at last week's Waymo v. Uber preliminary injunction hearing said it was "not your garden variety trade secrets case," he might have been accused of understatement.
James Pooley
senior counsel
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
intellectual property, trade secrets
1000 Marsh Rd
Menlo Park , CA 94025-1015
Phone: (650) 614-7400
Fax: (650) 614-7401
Email: jpooley@orrick.com
Columbia Univ Law School
James Pooley, senior counsel at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, is an expert in trade secrets law who is a member of the IP Hall of Fame and former deputy director of the World Intellectual Property Organization
When one of the lawyers appearing at last week's preliminary injunction hearing in Waymo v. Uber said it was "not your garden variety trade secrets case," he might have been accused of understatement. The self-driving car sector is expected to be worth billions of dollars. It turns out that Anthony Levandowski, who led the autonomous vehicle development effort at Waymo, a sister company of Google, was given $250 million in stock to come to Uber and pursue the same dream. And this ...
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