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Re:Judge orders Uber not to use technology taken from Waymo by joshuamorton on Monday May 15, 2017 @06:20PM (#14345681)
Elsewhere in the thread its been explained that "google get's to look at Uber's Lidar" is really "Google's lawyers and some non-employee experts get to look at Uber's Lidar". Essentially its Chinese walled, your average Waymo engineer (in fact probably every waymo engineer) isn't going to see the documents.
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Re:Judge orders Uber not to use technology taken from Waymo by linkregister on Monday May 15, 2017 @07:49PM (#14346235)
Not to discount HN legal experts, but nowhere is third-party examination mentioned in the document. "Waymo attorney" and "Waymo expert" are the terms used.

Edit: I don't think there's much risk of this. It's illegal enough that I doubt an individual engineer would risk prison over the corporation they happened to work for.

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Re:Judge orders Uber not to use technology taken from Waymo by joshuamorton on Monday May 15, 2017 @11:17PM (#14347126)
Right, waymo attorney is what it is, but waymo expert does not imply waymo employee (much like waymo attorney doesn't necessarily imply waymo employee either)
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