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“Metallic Machine Tools”

Civil Code, Sec. 709

  • Decision • Unfair Competition and Tort Law
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Employees who, with the intention of leaving their employer and setting up a competing enterprise, inform their employer’s customers of such intention with the purpose of soliciting business for their new enterprise, yet conceal such intention from their current employer, do not engage in unfair competition or commit an act of tort.

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Decision of the Supreme Court 25 March 2010. “Metallic Machine Tools”. IIC 45, 841–843 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40319-014-0261-4

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