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There's a lot Google could claim under California law, but that's almost certainly too broad an interpretation to make it through court unmodified.

Ignoring the PR problem, if they sued one of their engineers over, say, an iPhone racing game, a sane judge is going to make them work pretty damn hard to demonstrate that it has any relation to their business.



Leaving aside, of course, the wisdom of losing your $250k job over a game that nets you $753.32 over its lifetime.




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