- Title Pages
- FIGHTING OVER WORDS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I Business Contract Disputes
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CHAPTER 1 “Or” in a Group Insurance Policy -
CHAPTER 2 Exclusive Marketing Services -
CHAPTER 3 Conditions of a Key Employee Agreement -
CHAPTER 4 Interpreting State Code -
PART II Deceptive Trade Practices -
CHAPTER 5 Competing Conveying System Advertisements -
CHAPTER 6 Nicotine Patch Advertisements -
CHAPTER 7 Certificates of Deposit Advertisements - PART III Product Liability
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CHAPTER 8 Brain Damage from a Cleaning Product -
CHAPTER 9 Carbon Monoxide Poisoning -
CHAPTER 10 Toxic Shock Syndrome from Tampons -
CHAPTER 11 Toxic Gas in the Cockpit -
PART IV Copyright Infringement -
CHAPTER 12 A Book Is Turned into a Pamphlet -
PART V Discrimination -
CHAPTER 13 Racial Steering in Real Estate -
CHAPTER 14 Age Discrimination -
CHAPTER 15 Retaliatory Termination Discrimination -
PART VI Trademarks -
CHAPTER 16 Ownership of the Words “Wood Roasted” -
CHAPTER 17 Battle over Antifreeze - PART VII Procurement Fraud
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CHAPTER 18 False Representation in a Government Contract - APPENDIX
- REFERENCES
- Index
Conditions of a Key Employee Agreement
Conditions of a Key Employee Agreement
EMC Corporation v. Jeffrey E. Allen
- Chapter:
- (p.29) CHAPTER 3 Conditions of a Key Employee Agreement
- Source:
- Fighting over Words
- Author(s):
Roger W. Shuy (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Key employee agreements, sometimes required of high-level employees, often restrict employees from establishing relationships with competing companies for specified periods of time after they leave the company. This is called a noncompetition agreement. In this case, the agreement specified what was meant by competition: “ownership interest amounting to at least 1% in the competing enterprise, an officership, directorship, or other policy-making position in the competing enterprise.” Semantics and syntax analysis, including grammatical scope, the semantic meaning of “other,” and intonation were used to help resolve the ambiguity found in this agreement.
Keywords: key employee agreement, noncompetition, semantics, syntax, intonation, ambiguity
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- Title Pages
- FIGHTING OVER WORDS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I Business Contract Disputes
-
CHAPTER 1 “Or” in a Group Insurance Policy -
CHAPTER 2 Exclusive Marketing Services -
CHAPTER 3 Conditions of a Key Employee Agreement -
CHAPTER 4 Interpreting State Code -
PART II Deceptive Trade Practices -
CHAPTER 5 Competing Conveying System Advertisements -
CHAPTER 6 Nicotine Patch Advertisements -
CHAPTER 7 Certificates of Deposit Advertisements - PART III Product Liability
-
CHAPTER 8 Brain Damage from a Cleaning Product -
CHAPTER 9 Carbon Monoxide Poisoning -
CHAPTER 10 Toxic Shock Syndrome from Tampons -
CHAPTER 11 Toxic Gas in the Cockpit -
PART IV Copyright Infringement -
CHAPTER 12 A Book Is Turned into a Pamphlet -
PART V Discrimination -
CHAPTER 13 Racial Steering in Real Estate -
CHAPTER 14 Age Discrimination -
CHAPTER 15 Retaliatory Termination Discrimination -
PART VI Trademarks -
CHAPTER 16 Ownership of the Words “Wood Roasted” -
CHAPTER 17 Battle over Antifreeze - PART VII Procurement Fraud
-
CHAPTER 18 False Representation in a Government Contract - APPENDIX
- REFERENCES
- Index
