Rebuking Uber Lawyers, Judge Delays Trade Secrets Trial<br />This system, Mr. Jacobs said in his testimony, “was to ensure there was no paper trail<br />that would come back to haunt the company in any criminal or civil litigation.”<br />Mr. Jacobs said this effort focused solely on overseas competitors and<br />that he was not aware of the unit obtaining trade secrets from Waymo or other competitors in the United States.<br />In testimony on Tuesday, Mr. Russo said the team did not gather information from people at competitors and did not steal trade secrets.<br />Judge Alsup asked Uber’s lawyers to supply an unredacted copy of the letter from Mr. Jacobs’s lawyer<br />and a list of all Uber employees who used the Wickr service, including employees with the autonomous vehicle group in Pittsburgh.<br />Earlier in the year, Judge Alsup, citing what he said was compelling evidence against Mr. Levandowski<br />connected to the theft of trade secrets, referred the matter to federal authorities.<br />An Uber spokeswoman said nothing that Mr. Jacobs said on Tuesday impacted the merits of the case against the company.
