Ouch, this doesn't play well for the supplier either!
Presumably if Uber wins, it'd have a solid case against the supplier. If it loses, or while Waymo v Uber is ongoing, might there be a case anyway?
I'll bet the supplier searched for the engineer's name in his inbox and responded to a big email thread about the project with many people involved. The Otto engineer's old colleagues got the email instead of him.
Also an argument that "we stole stuff but you're the one who leaked it so you should be punished" won't play well with a jury.
Can they really claim that the supplier damaged them by leaking trade secrets if the trade secrets aren't theirs?
> Can they really claim that the supplier damaged them by leaking trade secrets if the trade secrets aren't theirs?
If Uber wins, they are Uber's secrets.