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appleinsider.com - 11/17/2008
New Apple hire fights back in countersuit against IBM
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The tug of war over the future of Mark Papermaster, an executive hired away from his post at IBM to head up Apple's handheld efforts, got a bit nastier on Thursday when the microprocessor expert countered a lawsuit from his former employer with one of his own.

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Papermaster Files Counter-Suit Against IBM
Mac|Life all RSS Feed — [image] Mark Papermaster, the IBM exec hired to lead Apple’s iPod division, is fighting back against his former employer with a lawsuit of his own. Earlier this month, IBM fumed when Papermaster was hired as Apple’s new chief of devices hardware engineering overseeing the iPod and iPhone. The company sued, alleging that he had violated a noncompete agreement by working for one of the “competitors.” Last Friday, a U.S. District Judge ordered that Papermaster immediately cease working at Apple until the court could come to a decision on whether his employment breaches the ...

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