In a second potentially hazardous legal turn for the smartphone-summoned ride service, appellate judges also backed a ruling Uber had to turn over a potentially damning internal report to Waymo to be considered as possible evidence.
The trial was tentatively scheduled to start in San Francisco on October 10, pending any requests from the companies for a delay.
Uber early this year fired an engineer accused in the trade secrets suit, which involves files he purportedly purloined from Waymo.
The firing of Anthony Levandowski came just ahead of a date set by a judge for Uber to return files taken from Waymo.
Levandowski missed a company deadline for assisting with an internal investigation related to the litigation, according to an Uber spokesperson who asked not to be named.
The case stems from a lawsuit filed in February by Waymo, formerly known as the Google self-driving car unit, which claimed former manager Levandowski took a trove of technical data with him when he left to launch a competing venture that went on to become Otto and was later acquired by Uber.
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