CA Court Favors Employees in Trade Secret Decision
Posted by
michael
on from the sanity-prevails dept.
legal_tinker writes "At grep.law, Tait Graves writes: 'In a majority of states, you can be enjoined from starting a new job because of what you know, even if you have done nothing wrong.' A California court just rejected that idea in California."
Re:People Laid off from my company
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Scaebor
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Its all a matter of perspective. Look at American policies from the standpoint of some large corporation. For them, this is indeed the land of the free. In America, corporations rule over the individuals of the nation. In Europe, the situation is the opposite (or at least reversed to some extent). I don't like it, but there it is anyway.
-- "Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand / your actions speak so loud I can't hear a word you're saying"
Re:People Laid off from my company
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mc6809e
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The other major point being, why should a person be expected to cripple their professional advancement by being forbidden to use knowledge that they have amassed?
The problem is that the person voluntarily gives up the future use of that knowledge to advance professionally now. If they don't agree to the companies terms, they don't get the knowledge in the first place. Sometimes professional advancement takes sacrifices -- long hours, long trips on the road, stress, and sometimes things like signing non-disclosure agreements.
This is a very American thing. I hate to say that the influence of it, like patents and copyrights and all the other stuff you guys are perpetrating down there, is starting to poison us elsewhere. Thanks a lot. Yeah, you're the home of the free, alright - my ass.
Much of the world would like America's prosperity and much of the world envies it. Well, these are the sorts of things you have to do if you want that prosperity.
And like I said before, allowing people to make agreements between themselves is an expression of freedom.
Finally, copyright and patents try to ensure that people responsible for creating the things you enjoy are compensated for it. If you don't compensate them, then you're just using them. Using the product of someone else's labor (creative or otherwise) without compensating them for it is a form of involuntary servitude and thats not freedom -- its the opposite. Now I agree that the system needs reform, but I the priciple is correct: Getting paid for you're work means you're free. Other's using your work without compensating you for it borders on slavery. You're just being used.
Re:People Laid off from my company
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Grishnakh
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For what it's worth, American's are number one in a lot of things.
Like what, besides blowing shit up and starting wars? Sure, the US has the most powerful military, but that's the only thing I can think of that it's #1 in.
Frankly, unless you've immersed yourself in our culture and learned to appreciate its shortcomings and strengths and unless we immersed ourselves in your culture and became familiar with its strengths and weaknesses, most anything either of us say amounts to nothing more than boosterism.
Well I am an American, so I know "our" culture (if you can call it that) completely, and still agree with the original poster.
And while you're at it, you might get your UN dues paid."
We might, as soon as UN diplomats start paying off their NYC parking/traffic tickets.
This is a classic and very dishonest fake argument.
When the US of A applied for getting the UN seat in NY, you entered into contracts. Part of these contracts is that UN diplomats are not required to pay these traffic tickets. So, just honor your own contracts please (something you would do well in other cases, too; re WTO, re Consulary affairs etc - you guys have a disturbing habit to publicly piss on the very contracts you made).
Moreover you know perfectly well that the US nonpayment of UN dues is not related to those traffic tickets but based on the US demand for more influence on UN policy than they already are entitled to based on the UN charta.
Are the rest of your "Arguments" of similar quality here ?
Go figure...
-- ...and here I stand, with all my lore, poor fool, no wiser than before.
Re:People Laid off from my company
by
schon
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Whoa, cowboy! You got excited, didn't you?
I think that it's interesting that instead of attacking my position, and telling me WHERE I was wrong, or under the wrong impression, you attack my character or state of mind.
Kind of like saying "I hate you for saying that stuff, but I know you're right about everything, so I'll call you a doodyhead instead."
American's are number one in a lot of things.
Ahh, such as? Perhaps I only got the Reader's Digest version of your post, but I didn't see you actually name any of them.
unless you've immersed yourself in our culture and learned to appreciate its shortcomings and strengths... most anything either of us say amounts to nothing more than boosterism
Hate to break it to you, but I'm Canadian - I'm "immersed" in your culture every day. Better than 70% of anything on my TV is American; more than 90% of movies shown in theatres here is American.
Just because your media doesn't take an interest in other countries, and you don't get TV programs from other countries, doesn't mean that the reverse isn't true.
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Its all a matter of perspective. Look at American policies from the standpoint of some large corporation. For them, this is indeed the land of the free. In America, corporations rule over the individuals of the nation. In Europe, the situation is the opposite (or at least reversed to some extent). I don't like it, but there it is anyway.
"Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand / your actions speak so loud I can't hear a word you're saying"
The other major point being, why should a person be expected to cripple their professional advancement by being forbidden to use knowledge that they have amassed?
The problem is that the person voluntarily gives up the future use of that knowledge to advance professionally now. If they don't agree to the companies terms, they don't get the knowledge in the first place. Sometimes professional advancement takes sacrifices -- long hours, long trips on the road, stress, and sometimes things like signing non-disclosure agreements.
This is a very American thing. I hate to say that the influence of it, like patents and copyrights and all the other stuff you guys are perpetrating down there, is starting to poison us elsewhere. Thanks a lot. Yeah, you're the home of the free, alright - my ass.
Much of the world would like America's prosperity and much of the world envies it. Well, these are the sorts of things you have to do if you want that prosperity.
And like I said before, allowing people to make agreements between themselves is an expression of freedom.
Finally, copyright and patents try to ensure that people responsible for creating the things you enjoy are compensated for it. If you don't compensate them, then you're just using them. Using the product of someone else's labor (creative or otherwise) without compensating them for it is a form of involuntary servitude and thats not freedom -- its the opposite. Now I agree that the system needs reform, but I the priciple is correct: Getting paid for you're work means you're free. Other's using your work without compensating you for it borders on slavery. You're just being used.
For what it's worth, American's are number one in a lot of things.
Like what, besides blowing shit up and starting wars? Sure, the US has the most powerful military, but that's the only thing I can think of that it's #1 in.
Frankly, unless you've immersed yourself in our culture and learned to appreciate its shortcomings and strengths and unless we immersed ourselves in your culture and became familiar with its strengths and weaknesses, most anything either of us say amounts to nothing more than boosterism.
Well I am an American, so I know "our" culture (if you can call it that) completely, and still agree with the original poster.
When the US of A applied for getting the UN seat in NY, you entered into contracts. Part of these contracts is that UN diplomats are not required to pay these traffic tickets. So, just honor your own contracts please (something you would do well in other cases, too; re WTO, re Consulary affairs etc - you guys have a disturbing habit to publicly piss on the very contracts you made).
Moreover you know perfectly well that the US nonpayment of UN dues is not related to those traffic tickets but based on the US demand for more influence on UN policy than they already are entitled to based on the UN charta.
Are the rest of your "Arguments" of similar quality here ?
Go figure...
Whoa, cowboy! You got excited, didn't you?
... most anything either of us say amounts to nothing more than boosterism
I think that it's interesting that instead of attacking my position, and telling me WHERE I was wrong, or under the wrong impression, you attack my character or state of mind.
Kind of like saying "I hate you for saying that stuff, but I know you're right about everything, so I'll call you a doodyhead instead."
American's are number one in a lot of things.
Ahh, such as? Perhaps I only got the Reader's Digest version of your post, but I didn't see you actually name any of them.
unless you've immersed yourself in our culture and learned to appreciate its shortcomings and strengths
Hate to break it to you, but I'm Canadian - I'm "immersed" in your culture every day. Better than 70% of anything on my TV is American; more than 90% of movies shown in theatres here is American.
Just because your media doesn't take an interest in other countries, and you don't get TV programs from other countries, doesn't mean that the reverse isn't true.