"Nvidia and a German unit of Paris-based Valeo SE were working together on a project for Mercedes-Benz when one of Valeo's engineers defected to Nvidia in 2021. During a video conference, Valeo employees recognized their company's verbatim source code files on the engineer's screen and took a screenshot before he closed the window, according to a lawsuit filed against Nvidia in 2023 in San Jose, California. The engineer, Mohammad Moniruzzaman, was convicted in Germany of infringing business secrets."
"Valeo rightly points out that there are a number of circumstantial facts that give rise to the inference that Nvidia relied on the engineer's tainted work, the judge wrote in a 15-page ruling. Among the facts cited by the judge: Nvidia made rapid progress on the parking assistance technology after the engineer shared Valeo's trade secrets; and Nvidia's autonomous driving code includes numerous functionalities directly paralleling Valeo's stolen code."
Nvidia faces trial over allegations that it benefited from autonomous-driving trade secrets taken by a former Valeo engineer who defected in 2021. Valeo employees captured a screenshot during a video conference showing verbatim source code files on the engineer's screen. The engineer was convicted in Germany for infringing business secrets. Nvidia denies using the stolen data, says it rolled back the engineer's work and fired him. A U.S. judge found sufficient circumstantial evidence linking Nvidia's rapid progress on parking assistance technology and parallel functionalities in its autonomous-driving code to the alleged disclosure. Three of seven trade-secret claims were dismissed. Trial set for November.
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