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SEATTLE (AP) - Newly released court documents reveal that Google Inc. anticipated a fight when it hired away a top Microsoft Corp. executive to launch a new research and development center in China.
The Internet search company agreed to pay Kai-Fu Lee's full salary and let his stock options vest even if an agreement he signed at Microsoft prevented him from being able to work for up to a year.
Microsoft sued Lee and Google on July 19, claiming that by taking the Google job, Lee was violating a noncompete agreement he signed in 2000 that barred him for a year from working for a direct competitor in an area that overlapped with his duties at Microsoft.
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