By Tim Higgins and Jack Nicas 

Waymo LLC, the self-driving car unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc., asked a federal court on Friday to halt Uber Technologies Inc.'s efforts to develop autonomous vehicles allegedly based on stolen design secrets.

The request was made to the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, following a suit filed last month accusing Anthony Levandowski, a former key manager in the Google self-driving car project, of taking 14,000 files before quitting last year to create a self-driving truck maker. That startup, called Otto, was quickly acquired by Uber last year.

An Uber spokeswoman didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

Write to Tim Higgins at Tim.Higgins@WSJ.com and Jack Nicas at jack.nicas@wsj.com

 

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

March 10, 2017 16:02 ET (21:02 GMT)

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