Judge Halts Google’s Microsoft Lawsuit

Google Inc.’s attempt to lift the job restrictions on a top computer engineer lured from rival Microsoft Corp. suffered another blow under a tentative court ruling that would limit the search engine company’s legal options for at least three months.

U.S. District Judge Ronald Whyte in San Jose indicated that he would pause a Google lawsuit that seeks to invalidate a noncompete agreement that’s preventing Kai-Fu Lee from carrying out all his duties as the new director of the company’s research center in China.