Lerner leaves General Patent.Usually, suits of this type are defended on the basis that the employee lured away ahs the right to work and restrictions on that that are placed on through a non-compete clause are balanced against the public interest on the basis of being an "unreasonable restraint of trade"
the Court , if it gets that far, which I doubt, would probably require Lerner and WIN to pay some nominal amount and.or restrict the knowledge that Lerner can impart to WIN for some set period of time. This is called a Chinese wall; that is, an obstacle is there, you can't see it or touch it, but there is a restriction which can be verified by WIN's actions in certain areas of competition.
These legal problems of which Skip would be well aware when he was talking with Lerner. No doubt Skip had a legal team review the Lerner employment contract with a team of TO's finest employment lawyers and they concluded that there would not be a major problem or at leas one that could not be resolved.
JS is just not the stupid and neither is Lerner for that matter. It would be wise to make peace with Poltarek as he is a man of influence however.
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