Google Rebuts Microsoft Injunction Filing

The battle between Microsoft and Google appears to outgrowing the mere non-compete violation and solidifying itself as a permanent rivalry. Earlier today, John Battelle made a injunction filing against Google's hiring of Microsoft engineer Dr. Kai-Fu Lee. The document contained a great deal of information designed to show Google's hiring of Dr. Lee violated an existing non-compete form signed by Dr. Lee during his Microsoft employment. It did not take long for Google to respond to Microsoft's injunction, which they did by filing a rebuttal. In their filing to counter Microsoft's claim, Google states Dr. Lee would not be working in any of the areas covered by the non-compete form in question. It also says the injunction was filed not to delay the hiring of Dr. Lee but to delay Google's entrance into the Chinese search market (Dr. Lee would be heading a murdok. Visit murdok for the