Uber Technologies Inc. must promptly return stolen confidential files to Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo self-driving car unit, a federal judge ruled, while stopping short of shutting down the ride-services company’s autonomous car program.
The judge wrote that Uber knew, or should have known, that ex-Waymo engineer Anthony Levandowski, whom it hired, had taken Waymo files potentially containing trade secrets and that some of the intellectual property had “seeped into” Uber’s own development efforts.
