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Sunday, October 11, 2026

Case: Individual Employment Rights/Noncompete Agreements (D. Mass.) - Bloomberg Law

Cognex Corporation isn’t entitled to a preliminary injunction against a former senior vice president who allegedly breached the non-competition, non-solicitation, and confidentiality provisions of his employment contract when he resigned and started working for a alleged competitor, a Massachusetts federal district court ruled. The court found that the VP may not have breached his non-compete agreement because it’s unclear whether his new employer is in fact a competitor of Cognex due to the fact that the companies don’t sell substantially similar products despite sometimes selling to the same customers. Cognex also failed to provide any evidence showing that the VP ...



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