Google has asked a federal judge in California to rule that Kai-Fu Lee's contract with Microsoft is unenforceable and that the researcher should be allowed to join Google unfettered by the terms of his employment deal.
Tuesday's preliminary court ruling in the battle over Dr Kai-Fu Lee has been welcomed by Google.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer vowed to 'kill' Google in an expletive-laced, chair-throwing tirade when a senior engineer told him he was leaving the company to go work for Google, the engineer claimed in court documents made public on Friday.
Microsoft says it found a potentially important document in its case against its former executive Kai-Fu Lee and Google in the "recycle bin" of one of Lee's computers.
Not only have fears of a patent crisis been greatly exaggerated, but the US patent system is functioning quite well, Microsoft's former chief technologist said on Tuesday.
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