If Google Inc. would agree to make a preliminary enjoinment become permanent in a lawsuit Microsoft Corp. file against it connect to a former employee who has go to exploit for Google , the matter could be settled , Microsoft said in a statement issue Tuesday .
“ We can settle this lawsuit tomorrow if Google will agree to take today ’s preliminary injunction , keep every word without a unmarried change , and enroll it as a permanent enjoining that will last until July 18 , 2006 , ” Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith said in the inclined statement . Doing so would evade a test and the need to pay lawyers outside of the troupe , he said .
Judge Steven Gonzalez of Superior Court of Washington State in King County ruled Tuesday that former Microsoft employee Kai - Fu Lee can employ “ his world-wide cognition , personal attributes , world-wide reputation and skills ” to recruit and set up faculty at a Google research and developing adroitness in China between now and when the lawsuit is scheduled for test in January .
Lee is not allowed to recruit from Microsoft employees or to practice confidential information from Microsoft , the evaluator ruled . That face of the ruling is partly what leave Microsoft to declare “ victory in motor lodge today ” after the Tuesday auditory modality . Lee is not allow to work on speech , instinctive language or lookup technologies at Google , which declare on July 19 that it had hired him as President of the United States of its China operations and to open up the inquiry and development center , which is determine to happen in the third quarter of this year .
He had been corporate vice president of Microsoft ’s Natural Interactive Services Division and also was involve in Microsoft ’s China operations . Google ’s announcement that Lee had been hired prompted Microsoft to file the case , arguing that he had transgress a noncompete and confidentiality agreement he contract when became a Microsoft vice chairman in 2000 . Google and Lee countersued Microsoft in July .
A spokesman for Google did not return a message seeking input on Microsoft ’s argument about get back the lawsuit .
