Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!SASW@MIT-MC From: SASW%MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: Non-competition clauses Message-ID: <12320@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Sun, 15-Apr-84 17:53:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12320 Posted: Sun Apr 15 17:53:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Apr-84 01:35:37 EST Lines: 16 From: Steven A. Swernofsky An excellent article on ''covenants not to compete'' and other non- disclosure agreements is Davidson, ''Constructing OEM Nondisclosure Agreements'', 24 Jurimetrics Journal 127 (1984). The author notes that after-employment restrictions are strong medicine, and therefore they are narrowly construed as to time and subject matter. In some states (e.g., California) they are impermissible except in narrow circumstances (such as the sale of a business and the like). Likely the best policy is to consult a lawyer. If you really wish to steer students away from that company, I would think the best way would be to name names. Their employment terms are hardly a secret in themselves. -- Steve