Google has asked a federal judge in California to rule that Kai-Fu Lee's contract with Microsoft is unenforceable and that the researcher should be allowed to join Google unfettered by the terms of his employment deal.
The two rivals are locked in a legal dispute over the hiring of Lee. Google announced on July 19 that it was hiring Lee to head up a new China research center. The same day, Microsoft sued Google over Lee's hiring in Washington state court. Google countersued in a California state court, saying that the case should be heard there. Microsoft last month had the California matter moved to federal court in San Jose, Calif.
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