[georgemcbay]

"non-compete are not enforceable in California. Relax and join a different medical startup if you want."

The way I read the OP (though this may be incorrect) wasn't so much that they were threatening to enforce a non-compete, but rather that they intended to blackball him within the local industry.

[sriram_sun]

Yes the worry is not the non-compete. The med device industry is pretty small within the US. It was the threat that bothered me more.