Lyft Inc. complained to a judge that Uber technologies Inc. moved to tug it into the higher experience-hailing company's trade-secrets and techniques battle with Waymo two days after Lyft and the Alphabet Inc. unit introduced an autonomous using partnership.
Lyft said Uber has demanded confidential counsel about "expansive and inappropriate issues" together with an analysis of Lyft as a possible acquisition target with the aid of Waymo, in keeping with a submitting Friday in San Francisco federal court docket.
Uber is the use of the trade secrets lawsuit introduced by means of Waymo over self-driving know-how "as an incorrect vehicle to extract aggressive intelligence from its rival Lyft in the trip-sharing enterprise," in line with the submitting.
Uber spokesman Matt Kallman didn't immediately reply to an e-mail in the hunt for comment on the filing.
Waymo is suing Uber, claiming that in 2015, its former driverless automobile engineer Anthony Levandowski and Uber hatched a plan for him to steal greater than 14,000 proprietary files, including the designs for lidar know-how that helps driverless vehicles see their surroundings. Uber denies the claims.
lawyers for Uber and Lyft have discussed subpoenas issued by way of Uber on as a minimum three separate occasions considering the fact that final month, in keeping with the submitting. Lyft says Uber needs to peer communications with Waymo to learn if the Alphabet unit has disclosed the alternate secrets and techniques at situation within the lawsuit, and if Waymo offered an estimated price of the secrets and techniques.
Lyft stated in the submitting that its attorneys objected to Uber searching for competitive assistance from a corporation now not worried in the lawsuit, and "in litigation where Uber has been accused of wrongdoing."
The case is Waymo LLC v. Uber applied sciences Inc., 17-cv-00939, U.S. District court, Northern District of California (San Francisco).
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