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   IBM must put up $3 million in Papermaster case
IBM must put up $3 million in Papermaster case
$3 million bond IBM only had to pay a $350 filing fee to sue Mark Papermaster, the 25-year IBM ( IBM ) veteran hired by Steve Jobs last month to run Apple’s ( AAPL ) iPod and iPhone division. It’s going to cost them a lot more to pursue the case. Last Friday, U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas ...
Revenge Of The Papermaster: Apple Exec Countersues IBM -
Revenge Of The Papermaster: Apple Exec Countersues IBM -
informationweek.com — Mark Papermaster, the microchip expert that a court last week ordered to stop working at Apple while... it hears a breach-of-contract suit brought against him by former employer IBM, has filed a lawsuit of his own against Big Blue. In court documents ... (more) Revenge Of The Papermaster: Apple Exec Countersues IBM -
   The Papermaster chronicles: An Apple vs. IBM timeline
The Papermaster chronicles: An Apple vs. IBM timeline
apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com — January 2008: Robert Mansfield, Apple’s VP for computer hardware development, includes Papermaster’s name in a short list... of possible hires. The two were classmates at the University of Texas at Ausin and both worked at IBM. February 2008: Papermaster ... (more) The Papermaster chronicles: An Apple vs. IBM timeline
Mark Papermaster trial between Apple and IBM gets ugly
Mark Papermaster trial between Apple and IBM gets ugly
blogs.computerworld.com — The Mark Papermaster saga is getting crazier and crazier. As of today, Papermaster "will immediately cease his... employment with Apple Inc. until further order of this court," U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas in White Plains, New York, said today in ... (more) Mark Papermaster trial between Apple and IBM gets ugly
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Judge Orders IBM to Pay $3 Million Papermaster Bond
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News — ... Fortune points out that following Karas’ order, Papermaster’s legal team had filed counterclaims to IBM’s suit, admitting only indisputable facts, even denying that Papermaster had ever worked for IBM in the first place. While IBM and Apple make claims that they are not even in competition, it has been stated that Papermaster was not hired to do work that would conflict with IBM. Even if that were the case, Papermaster’s lawyers insist that IBM’s noncompetition agreement is inordinately broad. Moreover, his legal counsel argues that the ...

IBM ordered to ante up $3 million in Papermaster case
MacDailyNews — ... "Last Friday, U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas granted Big Blue the preliminary injunction it sought — based on a noncompetition clause signed in 2006 — and ordered Papermaster to stop working for Apple immediatel," Elmer-DeWitt reports. "On Tuesday, the judge ordered IBM to put up a [$3,000,000] bond to cover any costs or damages Papermaster might suffer should it turn out that the injunction should not have been issued," Elmer-DeWitt reports. More info in the full article here .

New Apple hire fights back in countersuit against IBM
AppleInsider — ... with, the laws of the State of New York." "Mr. Papermaster has no substantial relationship to New York, in that he has resided and worked in Texas for the past 17 years, and he is going to work for Apple, which is a California corporation," the suit says. "Mr. Papermaster therefore has the most significant contacts with Texas and California. Both states hold that such noncompetition agreements are unenforceable as a matter of public policy." On Tuesday, Judge Karas ordered IBM to put up $3 million bond to cover any costs or damages Papermaster might suffer should it turn ...

The Papermaster Chase, Redux
Digital Daily — ... to become its Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering, has filed a countersuit against his former employer in ...

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