Word: pooley
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...reduce the amount of information that walks out the door, companies are enforcing nondisclosure agreements that prevent workers from taking secrets with them to a new job. It is not easy. Points out California Attorney James Pooley: "The most difficult area the courts have to grapple with is the distinction between your ideas and the company's property." Texas Instruments sued ten employees who left to start Compaq Computer, even though the Compaq machine, a portable that works like an IBM Personal Computer, does not use the same operating systems or software as the T.I. machines. Compaq retaliated with...