Google's claim against former executive could help Uber

Waymo filed a motion seeking temporary injunction to stop Uber's driverless car development

Several months before filing a lawsuit against Uber, Google demanded arbitration against the head of Uber’s self-driving car unit, claiming that he used confidential salary information while trying to poach former colleagues to a new venture that he eventually sold to Uber.
 
Google’s previously undisclosed legal action against Anthony Levandowski, who is accused by Waymo of stealing corporate secrets when he worked there and taking them to Uber, came out in a motion filed by Uber’s lawyers on Wednesday. Waymo, an autonomous car business, spun out into its own subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, in December. Levandowski is