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Waymo is going to be able to inspect Uber's LIDAR and get additional expedited discovery: "Waymo is hereby granted further expedited discovery in aid of possib
by golfer 9y ago
Waymo is going to be able to inspect Uber's LIDAR and get additional expedited discovery:
"Waymo is hereby granted further expedited discovery in aid of possible further provisional relief. Subject to the protective order, and upon reasonable notice, Waymo’s counsel and one expert may inspect any and all aspects of defendants’ ongoing work involving LiDAR — including, without limitation,schematics, work orders, source code, notes, and emails — whether or not said work resulted in any prototype or device. Withrespect to its trade secret misappropriation claims only, Waymo may take seven further depositions on seven calendar days notice, may propound 28 reasonably narrow document requests for which the response time is reduced to 14 calendar days, and may propound 28 reasonably narrow interrogatories for which theresponse time is also reduced to 14 calendar days. If Waymo moves for further provisional relief before trial, then all its declarants in support of such motion must sit for depositions on an expedited basis. Otherwise, defendants may take only normal, unexpedited discovery. After Waymo has exhausted its expedited discovery, it may continue with normal discovery."
- mabbo 9y agoWaymo is further granted the right to pull down the defendants' pants, and point and laugh at their genitals. I mean, seriously, they've just been granted a shit load of access to their biggest competitors secrets. Pray they don't abuse that...
- dlgeek 9y agoDoesn't work that way. When they say "Waymo", they really mean "Waymo's attorney's and hired independent expert(s)". The attorney's get to see the stuff as "Attorney's Eyes Only" (AEO) and then report back summaries to their clients. They have an ethical obligation not to disclose the full details.
- mabbo 9y agoExcellent point. My "pants down" joke, however, shall remain!
- clint 9y agoCan you explain the joke?
- Gravityloss 9y agoYour comment was unexpected, and that actually made it fun. There's a theory about humor that it exists to expose wrong assumptions in a harmless way.
- my_ghola 9y agoThe lawyer can pull down the defendants' pants and point and laugh, then tell Waymo how funny it was.
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoMore: It's usually only outside counsel who gets to see that kind of stuff. Even corporate attorneys don't.
- i_like_lamp 9y agoIf Uber turns out to be innocent as they claim, can they then turn around and sue Waymo? The amount of information Waymo has gotten on a competitor through discovery seems highly prejudicial.
- Fricken 9y agoThe lawsuit isn't really about protecting trade secrets for some soon-to-be-obsolete lidar technology, that's just a convenient tool for punishing Levandowski and Uber for hatching this scheme.