{"id":6884,"date":"2013-01-23T16:19:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T21:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6884"},"modified":"2014-07-11T11:46:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T15:46:05","slug":"the-no-hire-paper-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/23\/the-no-hire-paper-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"The No-Hire Paper Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/1\/23\/3906310\/the-no-hire-paper-trail-steve-jobs-and-eric-schmidt-didnt-want-you-to-see\">Jeff Blagdon<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/1\/23\/3906310\/the-no-hire-paper-trail-steve-jobs-and-eric-schmidt-didnt-want-you-to-see\"><p>Steve Jobs threatened patent litigation if Palm wouldn&rsquo;t agree to stop hiring Apple employees, says former Palm CEO Edward Colligan in a statement dated August 7th, 2012. The allegation is backed up by a trove of recently-released evidence that shows just how deeply Silicon Valley&rsquo;s no-hire agreements pervaded in the mid-2000s. Apple, Google, Intel, and others are the focus of a civil lawsuit into the &ldquo;gentleman&rsquo;s agreements,&rdquo; in which affected employees are fighting for class action status and damages from resulting lost wages, potentially reaching into the hundreds of millions of dollars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Colligan claims that Palm only hired three people from Apple, while Apple hired 2% of Palm&rsquo;s employees.<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/1\/23\/3906310\/the-no-hire-paper-trail-steve-jobs-and-eric-schmidt-didnt-want-you-to-see\"><p>While there are perhaps arguments to be made for the strategic benefits of these kinds of no-hire pacts, it&rsquo;s obvious from the e-mails we&rsquo;ve seen that high-ranking executives realized their potential legal ramifications. Above, Google&rsquo;s Eric Schmidt notes that he doesn&rsquo;t want to create a paper trail explicitly mentioning the agreements, lest the company &ldquo;be sued later.&rdquo; In a separate e-mail, Intel CEO Paul Otellini expresses his desire that the existence of the handshake agreements not be &ldquo;broadly known.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Blagdon: Steve Jobs threatened patent litigation if Palm wouldn&rsquo;t agree to stop hiring Apple employees, says former Palm CEO Edward Colligan in a statement dated August 7th, 2012. The allegation is backed up by a trove of recently-released evidence that shows just how deeply Silicon Valley&rsquo;s no-hire agreements pervaded in the mid-2000s. Apple, Google, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,51,937,261,209,299,40],"class_list":["post-6884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-google","tag-hiring","tag-intel","tag-legal","tag-palm","tag-patents"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9109,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884\/revisions\/9109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}