Four years after Tesla filed a lawsuit against Rivian, claiming that the company poached its employees to obtain trade secrets, the two sides appear to be moving closer to resolving the conflict. According to Bloomberg, Tesla said it has reached a “conditional” settlement with Rivian and expects to have the case closed by December 24. In a lawsuit filed in 2020, Tesla alleged that Rivian encouraged former Tesla employees to steal information and that it caught three employees taking “very valuable, confidential information as they left for Rivian.” Rivian has denied the allegations from the beginning, calling them “baseless.”
Rivian filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, but a judge in California rejected it, having previously ruled earlier this year that Rivian must stand trial. The trial was expected to take place in 2025, but now it looks like the case may be concluded by the end of the year without ever reaching that point.
