Kevin Gagnon, doing business as “Mister Computer,” alleged that his former customer, Asset Marketing Systems (AMS), infringed his copyright in six computer programs that he wrote for AMS by continuing to use and modify them without his consent and that AMS misappropriated trade secrets contained in the programs’ source code. After AMS terminated its contract with Gagnon, it hired seven of Gagnon’s twelve employees to provide directly to AMS the same services they previously provided to AMS through Gagnon. The Ninth Circuit affirmed summary judgment in AMS’s favor, holding that the non-compete covenants contained in the employment contracts of Gagnon’s former employees were unenforceable under Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §16600.