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Google Accused of Racketeering. Lawsuit Claims 'Pattern' Of Trade Secret Thefts (mercurynews.com)
schwit1 quotes the Mercury News:
In an explosive new allegation, a renowned architect has accused Google of racketeering, saying in a lawsuit the company has a pattern of stealing trade secrets from people it first invites to collaborate. Architect Eli Attia spent 50 years developing what his lawsuit calls "game-changing new technology" for building construction. Google in 2010 struck a deal to work with him on commercializing it as software, and Attia moved with his family from New York to Palo Alto to focus on the initiative, code-named "Project Genie." The project was undertaken in Google's secretive "Google X" unit for experimental "moonshots."
But then Google and its co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin "plotted to squeeze Attia out of the project" and pretended to kill it but used Attia's technology to "surreptitiously" spin off Project Genie into a new company, according to the lawsuit... This week, a judge in Santa Clara County Superior Court approved the addition of racketeering claims to the lawsuit originally filed in 2014. Attia's legal team uncovered six other incidents in which Google had engaged in a "substantially similar fact pattern of misappropriation of trade secrets" from other people or companies, according to a July 25 legal filing from Attia.
Wired reported yesterday that Project Loon -- also a Google X project -- "is embroiled in a lawsuit with Space Data, a small company accusing Alphabet of patent infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, and breach of contract following a failed acquisition bid."
The lawyer for the racketeering suit complains Google can deploy a "virtually unlimited budget to fight these things in court."
But then Google and its co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin "plotted to squeeze Attia out of the project" and pretended to kill it but used Attia's technology to "surreptitiously" spin off Project Genie into a new company, according to the lawsuit... This week, a judge in Santa Clara County Superior Court approved the addition of racketeering claims to the lawsuit originally filed in 2014. Attia's legal team uncovered six other incidents in which Google had engaged in a "substantially similar fact pattern of misappropriation of trade secrets" from other people or companies, according to a July 25 legal filing from Attia.
Wired reported yesterday that Project Loon -- also a Google X project -- "is embroiled in a lawsuit with Space Data, a small company accusing Alphabet of patent infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, and breach of contract following a failed acquisition bid."
The lawyer for the racketeering suit complains Google can deploy a "virtually unlimited budget to fight these things in court."
As a longtime Linux advocate this is a complete mindfuck for me. It's like getting back together with your skanky ex that cheated on you, but now she's grown up, mature, and dignified looking and you're somehow in a functional relationship. But you still sorta don't trust her even though you found out your other ex, Google, now has AIDS.
How did you find this article? I tried googling for it and it didn't show up.
It's like getting back together with your skanky ex that cheated on you, but now she's grown up, mature, and dignified looking and you're somehow in a functional relationship.
Windows 10 is still sending fuckloads of your data to Microsoft. The skanky ex hasn't grown up or matured. She's had a boob job and you're too distracted by the tits to notice that she's swiping the contents of your wallet.