REVEALED: Dominion/Smartmatic ‘Noncompete’ Agreement Emerges Despite Claims of Being ‘Fierce Competitors’ https://t.co/dxEQxoRRaA
— Raheem Kassam (@RaheemKassam) November 21, 2020
According to recently reviewed documents, Dominion Systems was a defendant in a 2009 lawsuit against Smartmatic.
“The license agreement contained a noncompetition provision, which, among other things, prohibited Smartmatic from ‘develop[ing], market[ing] or sell[ing] any Licensed Product in the United States,’” reads a summary of law firm Potter Anderson Corroon.
These revelations were first reported by The National Pulse.
A follow-up lawsuit notes: “the agreement’s noncompetition provision prohibited the plaintiffs from selling the licensed products in the United States.”
Such non-compete agreements appear to belie repeated claims that no connection exists between the firms and that they are only “competitors in the marketplace.”