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Apple’s Exec Countersues IBM
Hard|OCP - November 14, 2008 2:11 PM
This is getting as bad as a daytime soap opera. Well, not that I would know what a daytime soap opera is like. Mark Papermaster, the microchip expert that a court last week ordered to stop working at Apple while it hears a breach-of-contract suit brought against him by former employer IBM, has filed a lawsuit of his own against Big Blue. In court documents filed Thursday, Papermaster argues that the noncompete contract he signed while head of blade server development at IBM is irrelevant to his employment at Apple because "Apple and IBM are not significant competitors." Comments
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