Microsoft vs. Google: Lawsuit over Kai-Fu Lee
July 20th, 2005 Leave a comment Visited 470 times, 2 so far today
Microsoft vs. Google: Lawsuit over an employee
World’s largest software company Microsoft is suing the world’s most popular search engine company Google. This is perhaps the first time the two giants of the technology world are facing each other face to face. Microsoft claims that Google lured one of their senior employee in leaving the company and join Google. As a result, the company has also sued Kai-Fu Lee who has joined Google.
The lawsuit was filed in a Washington state court. Kai-Fu Lee was the corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Interactive Services Division, which worked on the MSN Search Engine technology, a direct competitor to Google’s primary service Google Search Engine. Google had just yesterday announced that Lee was joining the company and would head up a new research effort in China.
Microsoft said in its lawsuit: “Accepting such a position with a direct Microsoft competitor like Google violates the narrow non-competition promise Lee made when he was hired as an executive. Google is fully aware of Lee’s promises to Microsoft, but has chosen to ignore them, and has encouraged Lee to violate them.”
As per the contract, Lee was forbidden to join any competing company of Microsoft for a period of 1 year after leaving the job with Microsoft. Microsoft is seeking monetary damages as well as an injunction upholding the noncompete clause and other provisions of Lee’s contract. These conditions bars Lee from sharing any confidential information related to Microsoft.
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July 30th, 2005 at 6:29 pm
I can’t beleive google are being so ignorant. This is a terrible idea by them to hire a ex-MS employee that has deliberately broken a contract with MS. If he is willing to break a non-competition agreement with MS, whats to say he won’t break this agreement whilst working for Google. Not only do they stand the risk of hiring a “dodgy” employee, they stand fighting a court case that they cannot win. Afterall a contract is legally binding, and no amount of expensive lawyers can dispute this, let alone against one of the fiercest legal teams in the world. A suggestion to those holding shares in Google, Don’t, sell them before they hit rock bottom, as losing a lawsuit, as well as alot of research cannot help their share price. A very bad move by google… very bad indeed…
January 27th, 2006 at 7:25 am
Im glad that Micro$loth has lost yet another talented person.
To quote a holy source:
“And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.
from The Book of Mozilla, 7:1″
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