April 16, 2021
A former Tesla Inc. engineer has admitted to downloading proprietary Autopilot source code to his personal account, and has agreed to pay the company an undisclosed sum to settle its trade secrets lawsuit, the parties said in a joint bid for dismissal filed in a California federal court.
May 28, 2020
A California federal judge said a Chinese self-driving car startup must allow a neutral third party to examine its source code and logs in response to Tesla's request for information in a trade secrets suit against a former engineer accused of downloading Tesla's prized Autopilot source code before joining the startup.
April 27, 2020
A Chinese self-driving car startup told a California federal judge Saturday that Tesla can't rifle through its intellectual property to bolster a trade secrets suit against a former engineer accused of downloading Tesla's Autopilot source code before joining the Chinese startup.