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Not heard of that in europe an employee might get thrown under the bus and sacked for gross misconduct if it came out.

But its very common for sales types to take their contact list with them and I know one large UK employment Site had some one leave who took the entire candidate list with them.

I doubt that there is any clause in your work contract that prevents you from using knowledge gained from the competition. There usually are clauses against carrying knowledge out of the company, but not the other way around.

Loses which job? The one they already left? That seems reasonable, but irrelevant/pyrrhic for Jawbone's purposes.

I read it as the new job - a court injunction forces FitBit to fire the employees who stole trade secrets from Jawbone.