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Legal Arguments Can Hurt Tech Job Mobility

Posted by Zonk on from the don't-go dept.

camelcai writes "Microsoft's suit against Kai-Fu Lee and Google is based off of the thought that in some circumstances people can't avoid sharing or relying on trade secrets from their former employer when moving to a competitor. In MS's filing it says: 'Lee's conduct threatens to disclose or Lee inevitably will disclose Microsoft's trade secrets to Google and/or others for his and/or Google's financial gain in the course of working to improve Google search products that compete with Microsoft, and in the course of establishing and building Google's presence in China to compete with Microsoft's efforts in China.' According to CNET, thanks to this increasingly popular legal argument, defectors might face a lawsuit even if they did not sign agreements not to compete or not to disclose confidential information."

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  1. Re:HURRICANE KATRINA IS ABOUT TO SLAUGHTER 1000'S! by Draconix · · Score: 4, Funny

    And you can't spell 'slaughter' without laughter!

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  2. Re:I beg your pardon? by wbren · · Score: 5, Funny
    'Lee's conduct threatens to disclose or Lee inevitably will disclose Microsoft's trade secrets to Google and/or others for his and/or Google's financial gain in the course of working to improve Google search products that compete with Microsoft, and in the course of establishing and building Google's presence in China to compete with Microsoft's efforts in China.'

    Can someone translate this please?
    Translation: All Your Base Are Belong To Us, Kai-Fu Lee.
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  3. The worst.... by Karma_fucker_sucker · · Score: 3, Funny

    leaving pr0n on your machine! Oops!

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  4. Re:The new serfdom by milktoastman · · Score: 3, Funny

    I say, with smug snottiness and undeserved self-satisfaction, that Unions are bad for the economy and bad for workers because they rob employees of any motivation to do better work, and it goes against the Christian ideas of capitalism and unfettered free trade...also, their campaigns for workers rights and fairness give plant workers better salaries and it is more difficult as an employer to coerce their wives into trading sex for their husband's privilege of keeping his job.