[nradov]

Such lawsuits rarely destroy the defendants. Uber has been working on autonomous vehicles for several years now so they probably have some patents of their own. Most likely outcome is they will pay Alphabet (Waymo) a few hundred million $ and agree to cross-license all of their patents.

[throwaway2048]

I dont see a reason that waymo has to license anything to a potential competitor that they could very easily put out of business instead, especially at such a low amount.

[nradov]

The risk in such cases is always that the defendant will use their own patent library to countersue. So the plaintiff has an incentive to settle.

[danielweber]

It's a lot different if Uber is found, as is alleged, to have induced the employee to take the secrets and bring them to Uber.