Former Google and Uber Engineer Anthony Levandowski Must Pay You …

Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer who helped pioneer self-driving cars before joining Uber, was ordered to pay $ 179 million to Google Wednesday over a contract dispute. The ruling confirms the award Google previously won in arbitration over a settlement that Levandowski would not steal from employees. Levandowski also filed for bankruptcy protection claiming he had less than $ 100 million in personal assets. Google once paid Levandowski a $ 120 million bonus, but Levandowski still might not have to pay. As The New York Times points out, Levandowski’s employment agreement with Uber compensated him. “While Uber and Levandowski are parties to a severance agreement, whether Uber is ultimately liable for such severance is subject to a dispute between the company and Levandowski,” an Uber securities filing said this week, leaving the question open. Who Should Pay Google Levandowski’s Threshold May Not Have to Pay Levandowski has been involved in several legal actions since he was accused of stealing 14,000 Google documents containing proprietary information about the company’s autonomous driving program. A case filed by federal prosecutors in August, charging Levandowski with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of Google trade secrets, is still open. Uber, Levandowski and Waymo, the self-driving car company that grew out of Google, resolved an earlier dispute with Uber by handing over about $ 245 million in stock to Waymo.