Background Facts for Memo Assignment: Opening a new chapter in its rivalry with Google, Microsoft on Friday, Sept. 6, 2020, sued the search giant and a former Microsoft executive, Kai- Fu Lee, who has been tapped by Google to run its China operations. Google is a Delaware corporation with its headquarters in California. Microsoft is also a Delaware corporation but with its headquarters in Washington state. The suit was filed in a Washington state court against Google and Lee, who until recently was the corporate vice president of Microsoft's Interactive Services Division. Media reports on Thursday, Sept. 5, indicated that Lee was joining Google and would head up a new artificial intelligence effort in China for Google's Search division. Lee started working for Microsoft, in the Seattle headquarters, in 2010 focusing on R&D for faster searches. Fresh out of graduate school, Lee and Microsoft did not sign an employment contract when he began working there. In the early 2015, Lee was promoted to lead the search development team at Microsoft. This promotion was accompanied by a large pay increase and a new employment contract. The employment contact included a non-compete clause stating