Milestone / OnSSI OEM Agreement Analyzed and Legal Move
By: John Honovich, Published on May 17, 2016
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Comments (3)
Undisclosed #1
Milestone A/S is an European company. According to EU-laws I am really wondering how a term in a contract could be legal preventing other competitors from making business with ONSII ?
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Undisclosed #2
All this over a space bar...
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