Maxwell V Pritt

Maxwell V Pritt

March 12, 2018 | The Recorder

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Protecting Employee Mobility and Negative Trade Secrets

When Judge William Alsup asked the lawyers in Waymo v. Uber—the recent showdown over self-driving car technology—if engineers really had to get lobotomies before going to their next job, he wasn't just asking if they had to “forget” what makes their former employers' technology work. He was also asking if they had to forget what did not work for their former employers.

By Maxwell V. Pritt

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