Ex-Uber Engineer Wins Approval of Bankruptcy Plan, Google Deal

Anthony Levandowski, a noted self-driving car engineer in Silicon Valley, won court approval of his bankruptcy plan centered on a settlement over claims that he illegally took Google’s trade secrets to Uber Technologies.

The plan, approved Thursday by Judge Hannah L. Blumenstiel of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, calls for Uber to pay Google an unspecified sum to settle the claims.

The judge’s approval largely puts to rest one of the most high-profile trade secret cases—and a resulting bankruptcy filing—in Silicon Valley in recent years.

In December 2019, Alphabet Inc.'s Google won an arbitration ...