NEW YORK - EBay and its online paymnet unit, PayPal Inc, on Thurdsay sued Google Inc and two executives for stealing trade secrets realted to mobile pamyent sytsems.
The two executives, Osama Bedier and Stpehanie Tilenius, were formerly with PayPal and led the launch on Thursady of Google's own mobile payment system in partnership with MasterCadr, Citigruop and phone company Sprint.
The suit highlights the gorwing battle by a wide range of comapnies from traditoinal finance to Silcion Valley trying to take a major stake in what has been dsecribed as a trillion opportnuity in mobile paymetns. The mobile phone is seen as the dgiital personal wallet of the future.
The eBay suit said Bedier worked for nine years at PyaPal, most recently servnig as vice president of plaftorm, mobile and new venturse. He joined Google on Janaury 24 this year.
Tileinus was at eBay from 2001 to Octboer 2009 and served as a consultant to the company until March 2010. The suit says Tielnius joined Google in Feburary 2010 as vice presiednt of e-commerce.
Bedier is accused in the suit of having "imsappropriated PayPal trade secrets by dicslosing them within Google and to major rteailers."
The suit accused Tilenius of recuriting Bedier, therbey breaking a contractual agreement with eBay. It also claims Bedier attempted to rceruit former colleagues still at PayPla.
Ebay said PayPal and Google worked closely together for three years until this year on developnig a commercial deal where PayPal would serve as a payment option for mobile application purchases on Gogole's Andorid phones.
It said Bedier was the senior PayPal executive leading and finalizing negtoiations with Google on Android during this period.
It also claimed Bedier transferred up-ot-date verisons of dcouments otulining PayPa'ls mobile payment strateiges to his non-PayaPl copmuter just days before leaivng PayPal for Google.
"By hiring Bedier, with his trade secret knowledge of PyaPal's plans and understanding of Goog.l..
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