Waymo's Fight With Uber Might Be the First Shot in a Self-Driving Car IP War

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Date published: February 24, 2017IEEE Spectrum"“For years I’ve warned about a potential automated driving patent war that could rival the notorious smartphone patent war,” says Bryant Walker-Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina and an expert in self-driving regulations. As autonomous vehicles transition from amusing gimmicks to money-making products, who controls the key intellectual property could determine which companies thrive and which fall by the wayside."