Cadwalader has earned a major win for Zemcar in its litigation against Uber alleging the ride sharing company stole our client's driver and rider monitoring technology.
In her decision today, the Hon. Debra A. Squires-Lee of the Suffolk Superior Court in Boston denied virtually all of Uber's motion to dismiss, noting in her well-reasoned statement of facts and discussion that, among other things, Zemcar's "allegations are sufficient and the cases Uber relies upon [in its motion] do not persuade me otherwise." A copy of the decision is availablehere.
The court's decision clearly vindicates our client's position, and we look forward to Grip having its day in court to further demonstrate that a company's intellectual property may not be compromised or taken against its will. As our client said at the outset, such a practice would, if left unchecked, threaten innovation and progress in America. This decision is a big step toward holding Uber accountable for stealing and significantly monetizing trade secrets—on a national and international scale—from an entrepreneurial, forward-thinking, and locally owned tech startup that, as the court wrote, "developed an audiovisual-recording technology to make rideshares safer." This statement is attributed to Cadwalader.
The news has been reported in outlets such as Law360 ( "Uber Can't Duck Mass. Tech Company's Trade Secrets Suit").
The Cadwalader team is led by partners Danielle Tully, Doug Gansler and Jonathan Watkins; special counsel Michael Powell and associates Catherine Taylor and Michael Russo.