Former Google employee Anthony Levandowski (pictured below) filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday after a court ordered him to pay Google a $179 million fine for breach of contract.
Levandowski left Google in 2016 to start his own self-driving truck company, which was soon acquired by Uber for $680 million. After that, Google's autonomous technology company Waymo sued Uber for theft of business. secrets. The lawsuit alleged that Anthony Lewandowski stole about 14 files before leaving the company and gave them to Uber, which allowed it to quickly develop lidar for self-driving cars. That lawsuit was settled in February 2018, with Uber agreeing to pay Waymo $245 million in damages.
In addition, Waymo filed a lawsuit against Levandowski and his colleague Lior Ron, accusing them of violating legal obligations under the contract by creating a competing company and involving Google employees.
Source: 3dnews.ru