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Saturday, July 30, 2005

All Your Skills Are Ours

It's official.

Individuals now have no control over where they work.

Microsoft (Quote, Chart) won a temporary restraining order to keep high-level search researcher Dr. Kai-Fu Lee from defecting to search rival Google (Quote, Chart).

The latest legal maneuver keeps Redmond's search trade secrets and China business strategy out of the hands of its rival -- for now.

On Wednesday, a King County Superior Court judge in Seattle ordered that Lee be enjoined from joining Google. The order said Dr. Lee was prohibited from taking a job that that might be "competitive with or engaging in any activities competitive with any product, service or project (including actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development)," according to the order by Judge Steven Gonzalez...


But you knew that already...

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