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I recently read a Vox article that explained how California courts don't enforce contracts that limit employee mobility (and partially explains why behavior like this is possible):

http://www.vox.com/new-money/2017/2/13/14580874/google-self-...

Patent law =/= contract law. They're not referring to non-competes

I don't know about non-competes, but you can't patent math. You can patent systems that use math, but not the math itself. If the application is different enough they might be fine?

I'd be interested to hear from somebody who knows more.

> I don't know about non-competes, but you can't patent math.

If you call it software you can.

And in Europe, if you call it a "system" (software+hardware) you can (which those chips are).

It worked for Anthony Levandowski :)

His story hasn't come to an end yet. He will definitely end up losing more than he gained at the end. Google isn't taking this too lightly. They'll make an example out of him.