Google, Microsoft await final stay order in California | InfoWorld | News | 2005-10-14 | By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service: "A judge in San Jose, California, heard arguments in Google (Profile, Products, Articles) Inc.'s suit against Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) Corp. Friday, but did not make a final decision as to whether a tentative ruling made the previous day in the case would stick, according to lawyers from both companies.

Thursday, Judge Ronald Whyte issued a tentative ruling in a U.S. District Court in San Jose to grant Microsoft's motion to stay, or put on hold, Google's case in California. The suit was filed in response to an earlier suit by Microsoft against Google and a former Microsoft employee, Kai-Fu Lee, over charges that Lee violated a noncompetition clause between him and Microsoft when he took a position at Google.

Google originally filed the California case in a state court but it was moved to a federal court July 29 at Microsoft's request."

(Via InfoWorld.)