Google says it rarely sues -- but it made an exception with Uber

"So when we do sue, it's in our view so compelling, we have no option but to sue," said Porat at the Code conference here. Moderator Kara Swisher asked Porat how she wanted the suit to turn out. "The right way," said Porat. The case is scheduled to go to trial in the fall, but there has already been fallout. The engineer at the center of the Waymo v. Google lawsuit -- Anthony Levandowski, who Google alleges stole 14,000 sensor-focused documents before starting self-driving truck company Otto, which Uber bought for an estimated $680 million last summer -- was fired by Uber on Tuesday.