Under the inevitable disclosure doctrine, an employer may prevent a former employee from working for a competitor by simply demonstrating that the employee possesses the employer’s trade secrets and the former employee’s new job duties will “inevitably” cause her to rely upon those trade secrets.  The doctrine is not available in California.  However, California employers may be able to rely upon a “threatened” misappropriation of trade secrets to protect against the same risk.
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