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by Terribledactyl 3256 days ago
> By numbers, employees lose the vast majority of lawsuits under 2870 in california.

Do you happen to know if this is because only very strong cases materialize?

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I don't, but it's certainly possible.

Most employers have no desire to sue employees, so most of these settle or get ignored, AFAIK.

At least in the case of Google (literally, i have no concept of other Alphabet companies), the only cases i'm aware of where Google has claimed it owned something was when the employee sued Google first.

example: A former employee suing Google over a patent developed while employed by Google, google counterclaims it owns that patent under the IP agreement.