A judge in the U.S. has approved Waymo’s request for its impending trial against Uber to be postponed until December 4.
The trial, revolving around Waymo’s allegations that Uber stole trade secrets relating to its autonomous driving technologies, was originally set to commence on October 10. However, Alphabet’s self-driving division asked for a continuance to allow it to review newly-uncovered evidence.
In a statement, Waymo said it is looking forward to the trial.
“New evidence continues to come to light through thousands of documents and hundreds of previously unexamined devices that Defendants are only now turning over. We are reviewing these materials and look forward to presenting our case at trial.”
However, Uber isn’t so happy about the postponement and asserts that it’s ready to go to trial now.
“The Court has made clear that Waymo’s case is not what they hoped, and that more time will not change the hard fact that their trade secrets never came to Uber. We’re ready to go to trial now, and will be ready after this very brief continuance,” the company said.
Waymo claims that former employee Anthony Levandowski stole 14,000 confidential documents when he left Google in January 2016. He went on to form autonomous truck startup Otto which Uber purchased for $680 million just a few months later.
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