Uber Technologies Inc. is trying to force its trade secret dispute with Google driverless car subsidiary Waymo LLC into arbitration, on the ground that the former Waymo employee who allegedly stole trade secrets had an arbitration clause in his employment agreement with his former employer.
Anthony Levandowski is so bound up with Waymo’s claims against Uber that his name appears 35 times in Waymo’s complaint, Uber says in a motion filed late Wednesday. The ride-hailing service’s Morrison & Foerster and Boies Schiller & Flexner attorneys accuse Waymo of deliberately suing Uber and not Levandowski in order to avoid arbitration.
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