Uber refutes allegations of collusion in Waymo robocar case

San Francisco

UBER Technologies Inc said it didn't know about the alleged theft of proprietary information from Alphabet Inc's autonomous driving unit by an executive until Waymo filed a lawsuit in February. The ride-hailing company is seeking to refute Waymo's claim that Uber conspired with Anthony Levandowski to download 14,000 files and steal trade secrets before he left Waymo in January 2016.

"Prior to the filing of this lawsuit, no one at Uber knew that Levandowski had downloaded any Google proprietary information for any improper purpose or that he had deliberately taken any Google proprietary information with him when he left Google," according to Uber's filing on Wednesday in San Francisco's federal court.