A federal judge in San José, California, has ordered Nvidia Corp. to stand trial over allegations that it profited from confidential autonomous-driving data taken from Valeo SE by a former Valeo engineer who joined Nvidia in 2021. U.S. District Judge Noel Wise said circumstantial evidence was strong enough for a jury to consider whether the chipmaker relied on the misappropriated code when developing its parking-assistance technology. Valeo claims that during a 2022 videoconference its staff spotted text files containing its source code on engineer Mohammad Moniruzzaman’s computer screen and captured the image before the window was closed. Moniruzzaman, already convicted in Germany of trade-secret violations, was later dismissed by Nvidia, which says it discarded all of his work and denies using Valeo’s data. Judge Wise declined Nvidia’s request to dismiss the case, though she threw out three of Valeo’s seven trade-secret counts. The case—Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH v. Nvidia Corp., 23-cv-05721—is set for jury trial in November.