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Microsoft Charges Employee with Spying

Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against a former employee, charging him with taking a job at the software giant in order to steal information that would be helpful in his patent infringement case against the company.

By By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service (Seattle Bureau)

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The company also accused him of fraud, misappropriation of trade secrets and unjust enrichment.

Mullor calls Microsoft's action a retaliation suit. "These are shameful, dishonest attacks on my character by Microsoft -- the company that stole my idea in the first place," he said in the statement. "Microsoft fired me for trying to protect my own invention -- an invention I told them about before they ever hired me."

He claims that one person he pitched his product to at Microsoft before he started working there was involved with the development of Microsoft's activation technology.

Mullor is listed as chairman and founder of Ancora on its Web site, which appeared to be offline for some of the day on Friday. His biography included his time working for Microsoft and said that he once served in the Israeli Military Intelligence and has a law degree from an Israeli university.

Copyright 2009 IDG News Service, International Data Group Inc. All rights reserved.

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