The fight between Mark Papermaster and IBM continued this week with the former IBM employee filing a counter lawsuit against IBM.
Papermaster's lawyers filed their answer to IBM's original lawsuit on Wednesday as well as filing counter claims. As is common in such cases the filed papers admitted only solid facts and denied everything else.
In particular Papermaster's lawyers claim that IBM's non-competition agreement is unreasonably broad as well as arguing that the agreement doesn't apply in Texas – where Papermaster has lived and worked for 17 years – or California where Apple is based.
A status conference is schedueld for November 18 at 10 am in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, White Plains.
Read the filings so far (PDF):