Alphabet's Waymo filed the injunction against Uber on Friday.
Google has asked a federal judge to block Uber's self-driving-car project, alleging that the ride-hailing service is using stolen intellectual property to operate its self-driving vehicles, according to media reports.
The preliminary injunction, filed in federal court on Friday, comes a few weeks after Waymo filed an explosive lawsuit accusing Uber of stealing the design for its lidar sensor that allows the car to detect obstacles.
Waymo on Friday filed a sworn testimony by Gary Brown, a forensic security engineer, who claims Anthony Levandowski downloaded 14,000 highly confidential and proprietary design files relating to Waymo's self-driving-car project, The Verge reports.
Levandowski is one of the original members of Google's self-driving-car unit who left the company after nine years to co-found Otto, a self-driving-truck startup that was acquired by Uber last year.
Brown claims Levandowski downloaded the files December 2015 before he left the company in January 2016, according to the Verge.
Brown alleges Radu Raduta, a former Google mechanical engineer, and Sameer Kshirsagar, the former global supply manager for Waymo's self-driving cars, downloaded confidential material prior to joining Levandowski at Otto.
Uber has denied the allegations made by Waymo in the lawsuit, calling them a "a baseless attempt to slow down a competitor." Uber did not immediately return Business Insider's request for comment on the injunction filed Friday.
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