# Professor Arun Sundararajan discusses the implications of Waymo's lawsuit against Uber on the sharing of intellectual capital and the difficulty in defining where the companies end and the workers begin

1 Faculty News February 4, 2018 ![The Washington Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031074.jpg?itok=f6OME_Rm)>

Excerpt from [The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2018/02/04/tech-titans-trade-secrets-and-alleged-conspiracy-inside-the-waymo-uber-battle-captivating-silicon-valley/) -- "'It’s very hard to draw the line between what an engineer has acquired on their own and what is the property of the company and has been embedded in a product,’ \[[Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan)\] said. ‘But the spillover of engineers working for one company and going to another after acquiring valuable knowledge is endemic in Silicon Valley and in the tech sector in general.'"

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