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wham-o is suing uber over stolen trade secrets they filed a complaint about a year ago last February saying that a former Google employee stole 14,000 trade secret files and that uber then hired this employee to develop its self-driving car program well we're in federal court and federal judges don't like things to go on too long so right now on the calendar it's slated for three weeks there's some talk that it may go longer but right now we're looking at three weeks there are a lot of heavy-hitting witnesses that might come forward we have the former CEO of uber Travis kalanick we have the CEO of alphabet Larry Page there's a whole bunch of employees from both Google and uber along with the person who allegedly stole the self-driving car file to add to the 11 donkey way Moe wants Hoover ideally to shut down a self-driving car program they see Hoover as a big competitor in the space and this is a space that is growing and potentially could be worth a lot of money in a few years so the judge is putting the burden of proof on way low it once way mo to prove that not only did ever get these 14,000 files but they use them to develop their self-driving car program so it's a hybrid and a proof on way mo there's always a potential for settlement which can happen in cases like this and there's the - you know if way mo wins or if uber wins it's over wins that means they get to continue developing their self-driving car program as planned if way mo ends there may be some limits on what uber can do in it self-driving car program