Bradford Newman is a litigation partner resident in Baker McKenzie's Palo Alto Office and Chair of the North America Trade Secrets Practice. According to Chambers USA, Brad is a "recognized authority on trade secrets cases" who "is valued for his tenacious, intelligent and thoughtful approach to trade secrets matters." Bradford regularly serves as lead trial counsel in cases with potential eight and nine-figure liability, and has successfully litigated (both prosecuting and defending) a broad spectrum of trade secrets cases in state and federal courts throughout the country. He routinely advises and represents the world's leading technology, banking, professional service, manufacturing and commerce companies in connection with their most significant data protection and trade secret matters. Bradford is the author of Protecting Intellectual Property in the Age of Employee Mobility: Forms and Analysis, a comprehensive treatise published by ALM that offers authoritative guidance on legal risks and practical steps companies can take to protect their IP and remedy IP theft.

A high-profile legal fight is underway in a San Francisco courthouse between Uber and Google-spin-off Waymo, which accuses the ride-hailing company of stealing its self-driving car technology. Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick leaves the Phillip Burton Federal Building on day three of the trial between Waymo and Uber Technologies on February 7, 2018 in San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO -- Uber settled a lawsuit Friday that was brought against it by Waymo, Google's self-driving car company, ending a year-long skirmish over stolen trade secrets at the heart of autonomous car technology. After a week of testimony that shined a spotlight on often aggressive competitive tactics taken by former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, new uber boss Dara Khosrowshahi apologized to its competitor. He agreed to pay a fine and promised that Uber would continue to clean up its act.

On the face of it, Uber has had a terrible week in its legal brawl with Waymo, Google parent company Alphabet's self-driving car effort. First it suffered the public reveal of a long-awaited report that appeared to confirm Uber knew its former superstar engineer, Anthony Levandowski, took intellectual property from Google, his former employer, before it hired him. Then, over Uber's protest, the judge pushed the trial date back from this month to December, giving Waymo more time to prepare its case. To quickly sum up the case: Waymo alleges that when former star engineer Levandowski left the company in January 2016, he made off with thousands of documents containing its proprietary information, then used that intellectual property to jumpstart his own company, Otto. Uber acquired Otto for a reported $680 million in August 2016, and Waymo says Levandowski brought this stolen info with him--and that its intellectual property ended up in Uber's self-driving cars.