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Re:The case for banning non-competes by lamontcg on Friday July 16, 2021 @12:51PM (#27858226)
Yeah that would be solved by NDAs and trade secrets.

Then if you write a stock trading app... Did you have any contact with the team that was writing the companies stock trading app, did you sign any NDAs about that, did you receive any information about that, did you have any trade secrets? No? Then they shouldn't have any claim.

IP assignment and non-competes should be eliminated for non-managerial employees.

Or for IP assignment it needs to be whittled down to narrowly apply only to what the employee actually worked on, not anything the business does.

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Re:The case for banning non-competes by s1artibartfast on Friday July 16, 2021 @02:23PM (#27859453)
NDAs and trade secrets are difficult to enforce in practice for many types of ip that can't go in a patent, like market and product strategy.
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Re:The case for banning non-competes by lamontcg on Saturday July 17, 2021 @12:30PM (#27866899)
That is not a good reason for every software engineer at the company to be under overly-broad non-competes.
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