They might be blowing it a bit out of proportion, but it appears Uber indemnified Levandowski for trade secret misappropriation of mind trade secrets. There ar

They might be blowing it a bit out of proportion, but it appears Uber indemnified Levandowski for trade secret misappropriation of mind trade secrets. There are honest reasons for a clause like that--mostly because anyone who poaches a direct competitor's engineer to have them create a competitive product is risking a trade secret suit. But the WaPo article doesn't mention any qualifying language. If I were trying to draft a contract to cover incidental mind secret leakage, I'd only cover indemnification as long as he used best efforts to avoid disclosure. Now maybe the full contract has something like that, I've only read a summary of it.