Tesla, Inc., an American electric car manufacturing company based in Palo Alto, California has sued a former employee and software engineer named Alex Khatilov alleging trade secret theft and breach of contract in his first week of working at the company. The company accuses him of stealing code and files from WARP Drive, a back-end software system that Tesla developed to automate a range of business processes involved in manufacturing and selling its cars. The code is of concern to Tesla because it could reveal to competitors which systems Tesla believes are important and valuable to automate and how to automate them providing a roadmap to copy Teslas innovation”]