Uber will appeal a judge’s order rejecting its try to arbitrate a high-profile trade secrets lawsuit against Alphabet’s self-driving Waymo product, corresponding to a courtroom filing on Thursday night. U.S. District Judge William Alsup the other day ruled that Waymo’s lawsuit shouldn’t be heard in an exclusive website, and instead should continue being litigated in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA federal court.

The situation, which pits two companies fighting to dominate the fast-growing field of self-driving vehicles, hinges on data that Waymo alleges engineer Anthony Levandowski stole before giving the business. Waymo claims the info made its way into Uber’s Lidar system, an integral sensor technology in self-driving vehicles.

Levandowski kept Waymo in January 2016 and began Otto, a self-driving vehicle startup that Uber bought for $680 million in August. He previously until previous month run Uber’s self-driving car department, before stepping apart from those duties pending the court docket case.

Alsup also given an injunction placing your order Uber to keep Levandowski from work concerning Lidar, to avoid him and all the employees from using the materials also to return those to Waymo by May 31.

Uber hasn’t yet said in courtroom documents whether it blueprints to charm the injunction. An Uber spokesman dropped to comment. A spokesman for Waymo criticized Uber’s decision to charm the order on arbitration. “Uber’s charm is a blatant try to cover their misconduct from the general public,” the Waymo spokesman said in a affirmation. Reuters