My company recently spawned off from a parent company, and we're drafting a non-compete agreement and looking for some insight as to wording. We found a couple generic agreements, and they used such remarkably vague terms as "... the Employee shall not own, manage, operate, consult to or be employed in a business substantially similar to the present or future business of the Company ..."
I don't have a particular problem with signing an appropriate non-compete, and my employer wants to ensure the agreement is suitable for all concerned, which is very nice, so there is some flexability. The company develops a web-based communications management tool that is licensed and hosted ASP-style (Application Service Provider, not Active Server Pages ;). As well as doing all development, we do all the sales and support services. My concern is that any web app could be construed as a web-based communications management tool, especially anything that's not a basic web site (an email newsletter with web-based authoring, for example), so the definition of "competition" needs a fairly high degree of precision. I'm sure there are people out there who've fought this battle before, and I was wondering if any of you had some insight, or even some sample language. thanks, barneyb --- Barney Boisvert, Senior Development Engineer AudienceCentral [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice : 360.756.8080 x12 fax : 360.647.5351 www.audiencecentral.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.500 / Virus Database: 298 - Release Date: 7/10/2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
