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Re:Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets by leereeves on Thursday February 23, 2017 @06:27PM (#13718939)
> I was confused as to what stealing a patent actually meant

Indeed. The current title of the article is

> Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets

Secrets, not Patents. If patents was the original title perhaps the author was confused.

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Re:Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets by vgt on Thursday February 23, 2017 @06:37PM (#13719022)
The filing itself claims both [0].

[0] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7dzPLynxaXuQjY3dkllZ2ZKb0k...

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Re:Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets by kbenson on Thursday February 23, 2017 @06:50PM (#13719136)
Patent infringement, or patent theft?

How do you steal a patent? If you steal (to be clear, illegally take) information and then use that to get a patent, is that stealing a patent? Is there case law on on something like that?

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Re:Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets by ABCLAW on Thursday February 23, 2017 @07:15PM (#13719374)
Infringement. The cause of action for infringement begins on Para. 88.
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