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LEVANDOWSKI WAS FOUND GUILTY OF STEALING GOOGLE'S TRADE SECRETS
Engineer Anthony Levandowski was found guilty of stealing Google's trade secrets and was sentenced to 18 months in prison and a $ 95,000 fine.
Yazar: Tom Roberts
Yayınlanma: 5 Ağustos 2020 21:08
Güncellenme: 15 Kasım 2024 03:06
LEVANDOWSKI WAS FOUND GUILTY OF STEALING GOOGLE'S TRADE SECRETS
One of the most remarkable cases of recent years in Silicon Valley has been concluded. Autonomous driving engineer Anthony Levandowski was found guilty of stealing Google's trade secrets and was sentenced to 18 months in prison and a $ 95,000 fine. According to the news in Business Insider, Levandowski previously said that he was innocent and would fight to the end. However, in the March trial, the court found Google right and ordered the 40-year-old engineer to pay $ 179 million in compensation. Levandowski announced that he was bankrupt.In the last hearing, judge William Alsup sent 18 months' imprisonment to Anthony Levandowski, who accepted one of 33 charges. Lawyers asked that Levandowski had been pneumonia twice in recent years and was therefore placed under house arrest. However, judge Alsup turned it down. Levandowski will not enter the federal prison immediately because of the corona virus outbreak.
When Judge William Alsup announced his decision, “Mr. Levandowski can solve big problems. I respect this. I want you to know that. However, this is not a minor crime. This is the biggest trade secret case I've seen in my nearly 50 years of professional career. Not to punish this would be to give green light to those who think of committing similar crimes in the future. I want those who want to try something like this to think, I will end up in a federal prison." Alsup also ordered Levandowski to speak to a group of at least 200 people on 'Why I went to a federal prison' after serving his prison sentence.
Anthony Levandowski started working on Google in 2007. Levandowski, working on autonomous vehicles, complained that the company did not pay enough attention to this issue and did not act fast. That's why Levandowski broke up and started a company on autonomous vehicles. He successfully integrated Lidar technology into cars. Google's boss Larry Page bought this company for $ 20 million and showed his support for Levandowski. However, things did not proceed as fast as he wanted. In 2016, Levandowski took his own team with him, left Waymo (Google's autonomous driving company) and founded a company on autonomous trucks. Just six months later, Uber bought this company for $ 680 million.
The situation arose when a Uber employee mistakenly sent a file containing technical drawings to a Google employee. People at Google noticed that the drawings were the same as theirs. Immediately Levandowski's computer was under scrutiny and it was determined that the engineer transferred 14 thousand files from the company to his personal laptop before leaving. Moreover, it was determined that Levandowski also searches Google for "how do I destroy hard disk copy records". Thereupon, Google sued Uber. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick fired Levandowski, who refused to testify in court. Later, Uber made a deal with Google and paid $ 245 million.
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