Are you suggesting that the FRC should step in when a company offers employment to a large number of employees at another company? How exactly would you propose to put this into law where it doesn’t hurt the employees?

How about the fact that both companies are still healthy?

And even if you do look at this like an acquisition, acquisitions are almost always not anticompetitive.

And neither is alleged. It was a patent that we are discussing which by definition isn’t a trade secret.

But you are coming awfully close to advocating for non competes which is explicitly not allowed in CA.