Tuesday's preliminary court ruling in the battle over Dr Kai-Fu Lee has been welcomed by Google.
The next round in the legal battle between Google and Microsoft over former Microsoft executive Kai-Fu Lee could take place October 14 - unless the companies settle their dispute first.
Google has asked a federal judge in California to rule that Kai-Fu Lee's contract with Microsoft is unenforceable and that the researcher should be allowed to join Google unfettered by the terms of his employment deal.
Microsoft says it found a potentially important document in its case against its former executive Kai-Fu Lee and Google in the "recycle bin" of one of Lee's computers.
A former Microsoft executive can immediately begin recruiting staff for a Google development centre in China, rather than waiting until after a January trial, a Washington state judge ruled on Tuesday.
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