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The History of Non-Compete Agreements in California

The California State Constitution formulated in the late 19th century had a provision that you could not enforce the non-compete agreement. This allowed tacit knowledge and experience to go from one place to another quite easily. And certainly employers kind of tried to prevent IP from traveling with them, but they really couldn't.

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