There was, about that time, a ruling of Check Point vs. RadGuard (or was
that the other way around? Being as it is that I was interviewing for
both companies at the time the ruling was made, I tend not to remember).
I don't recall that case including customer lists, though.
Shachar
guy keren wrote:
>On 17 Jul 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
>
>
>
>>I actually paid a bunch of lawyers once to understand a particularly
>>difficult employment contract. It was explained to me at length that
>>the law (in Israel) recognizes non-competition without any explicit
>>clauses in the contract.
>>
>>What the law will not uphold is a non-competition with overly broad
>>scope or too long a duration.
>>
>>
>
>there was a case laetly, in a israely court (i think it was half a year or
>so ago), in which the court tore-down a non-competetion clause that had a
>2-years limitation (which is a very common case). the case dealt with an
>employer of a company that gave services to other companies. this employe
>left the company, and started giving the same type of service (i think it
>was service for some software package), to some of the clients of his
>former company. the company went and sued. the court said the employee is
>allowed to give the service he does, but must reutrn the info about
>customers he took from the original company, back to the company.
>(i hope i wrote the details correctly - i don't have the article).
>
>if you want to know more details, i suggest you look this court rulling
>up. its a new precedence in this area, btw, and represents a change in the
>interpretation of the 'freedom of occupation' law in israel, relative to
>the norm that existed in the past.
>
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