Prosecutors Recommend Prison For Former Uber Exec Who Stole Trade Secrets
Prosecutors Recommend Prison For Former Uber Exec Who Stole Trade Secrets
Federal prosecutors have recommended a 27-month prison sentence for Anthony Levandowski, the former head of Uber's self-driving division, as well as three years of supervised release.
聯邦檢察官建議判處優步自動駕駛部門前負責人安東尼·萊萬多夫斯基(Anthony Levandowski)27個月監禁，並在監督下釋放三年。
Levandowski pleaded guilty in March to one count of stealing Google trade secrets after he was originally charged with 33 counts of intellectual theft and attempted theft of trade secrets from self-driving startup Waymo in August 2019.
萊萬多夫斯基在2019年8月最初被控33項竊取自動駕駛初創公司Waymo的知識產權和企圖竊取商業機密後，於今年3月承認了一項竊取谷歌商業機密的指控。
Levandowski's attorney countered that he deserves up to one year of home confinement but no prison time. Court documents claim that over the past six years, Levandowski has had repeated respiratory illnesses, including pneumonia in 2015 and 2017.
萊萬多夫斯基的律師反駁説，他應該受到長達一年的家庭監禁，但不應該入獄。法庭文件聲稱，在過去的六年裏，萊萬多夫斯基反覆患有呼吸道疾病，包括2015年和2017年的肺炎。
His attorneys argue in court documents that sending Levandowski to prison during the COVID-19 pandemic could be a "death sentence" since the Federal Bureau of Prisons has been unable "to control the spread of the coronavirus."
他的律師在法庭文件中辯稱，在新冠肺炎大流行期間將萊萬多夫斯基送進監獄可能是“死刑判決”，因為聯邦監獄局一直無法“控制冠狀病毒的傳播”。
"While Mr. Levandowski certainly must be punished for his crime, we submit that, given the grave risks it carries, a custodial sentence right now is unnecessary and unwarranted in this case," according to court documents.
法庭文件顯示，“雖然萊萬多夫斯基先生肯定必須為他的罪行受到懲罰，但我們認為，考慮到它帶來的嚴重風險，在這種情況下，現在就判處監禁是不必要的，也是沒有根據的。”
Sentencing is set for Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
美國加州北區地區法院定於週二宣判。
What happened?
發生了什麼？
Prior to leaving Waymo parent company Alphabet, prosecutors allege that Levandowski downloaded 14,000 "Project Chauffeur" documents centered around advancements in the company's LiDAR technology, from his work computer to his personal laptop in December 2015. Project Chauffeur later became Waymo LLC, after it was spun off from Google.
檢察官稱，在離開Waymo母公司Alphabet之前，Levandowski於2015年12月從他的工作電腦到個人筆記本電腦上下載了1.4萬份圍繞該公司LiDAR技術進步的“項目司機”文件。Project Cauffeur後來從谷歌(Google)剝離出來，後來更名為Waymo LLC。
A short time later, Levandowski founded his own autonomous trucking startup, Otto, in 2016, which was bought by Uber Technologiees, Inc. (NYSE:UBER) six months later for nearly $700 million.
不久之後，Levandowski在2016年創建了自己的自主卡車運輸初創公司Otto，該公司被優步技術公司(Uber Technologies，Inc.)收購。(紐約證券交易所代碼：Uber)六個月後以近7億美元的價格收購。
In February 2017, Alphabet, Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) filed suit against rival autonomous trucking startup Uber and Levandowski, alleging the two conspired to steal trade secrets to incorporate into Uber's own self-driving efforts. Uber agreed to pay Google roughly $244 million to settle the suit in February 2018.
2017年2月，Alphabet，Inc.納斯達克股票代碼：GOOGL)(納斯達克股票代碼：GOOG)對競爭對手自動卡車運輸初創公司優步(Uber)和萊萬多夫斯基(Levandowski)提起訴訟，指控這兩家公司合謀竊取商業機密，納入優步自己的自動駕駛努力。2018年2月，優步同意向谷歌支付約2.44億美元，以了結這起訴訟。
While Uber had an indemnification agreement to pay Levandowski's legal fees and judgments as part of his contract, the company refused to honor the agreement after Levandowski pleaded guilty to one count of IP theft.
雖然優步有賠償協議，作為他合同的一部分，支付萊萬多夫斯基的律師費和判決，但在萊萬多夫斯基對一項竊取知識產權的指控認罪後，該公司拒絕履行協議。
Levandowski filed for bankruptcy protection in federal court in March, the same day he was ordered to pay Google $179 million to settle an ongoing contract dispute.
Levandowski在3月份向聯邦法院申請破產保護，就在同一天，他被勒令向谷歌支付1.79億美元，以了結一場正在進行的合同糾紛。
In 2018, tech pioneer Levandowski co-founded Pronto.AI, developing a new aftermarket safety system for commercial trucks called Copilot, a far cry from the Level 5 autonomous vehicle technology he had been developing for the past 15 years.
2018年，科技先驅Levandowski與人共同創立了Pronto.AI，為商用卡車開發了一種名為Copilot的新的售後安全系統，這與他過去15年來一直在開發的5級自動駕駛汽車技術相去甚遠。
"We've made some great improvements in the last 10 years, but we've kind of hit the ceiling where it's difficult to generalize circumstances that exist on the road and have computers be able to handle all of [the possible issues] that happen," Levandowski said at FreightWaves' Transparency freight tech conference in Atlanta in May 2019.
“在過去的10年裏，我們取得了一些很大的進步，但我們已經達到了天花板，很難將道路上存在的情況一概而論，並讓計算機能夠處理所有[可能出現的問題]2019年5月，萊萬多夫斯基在亞特蘭大舉行的FreightWaves透明貨運技術大會上表示。
Three months later, Levandowski was forced to step down as Pronto.AI's CEO after he was indicted on federal charges. Robbie Miller took the reins as Pronto.AI's CEO in late August 2019.
三個月後，Levandowski在被聯邦指控起訴後，被迫辭去Pronto.AI首席執行官一職。羅比·米勒(Robbie Miller)於2019年8月下旬接任Pronto.AI首席執行官。
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