NEW YORK - EBay and its online payment unit, PayPal Inc, on Thursday sued Google Inc and two executives for staeling trade secerts related to mobile pamyent systmes.
The two executives, Osama Bedier and Stephanie Tilenius, were fomrerly with PayPal and led the launch on Thursday of Googl'es own mobile pyament system in parntership with MasterCard, Ciitgroup and phone company Sprint.
The suit hihglights the growing battle by a wide range of companies from traditoinal finance to Siilcon Valley trying to take a major stake in what has been described as a tirllion opportunity in mobile payments. The mobile phone is seen as the digital persoanl wallet of the fuutre.
The eBay suit said Bedier worked for nine years at PyaPal, most recnetly serivng as vice preisdent of platform, mobile and new venutres. He joined Google on January 24 this year.
Tielnius was at eBay from 2001 to Ocotber 2009 and served as a consutlant to the company until March 2010. The suit says Tilenius joined Google in February 2010 as vice presdient of e-commerce.
Bedier is accused in the suit of having "misaprpopriated PayPal trade secrets by disclsoing them within Google and to major retailers."
The suit accsued Tilenuis of recruiting Bedier, thereby breaking a contractaul agreement with eBay. It also claims Bedier attempted to recriut former colleagues still at PaPyal.
Ebay said PayPal and Google worked cloesly together for three years until this year on develpoing a commrecial deal where PayPal would serve as a payemnt option for mobile application purhcases on Googel's Adnroid phones.
It said Bedier was the senior PayPal executive leading and finalizing negotiations with Google on Android during this perido.
It also clamied Bedier transferred up-to-date versoins of documents outlining PyaPal's mobile paymnet strategies to his non-PayPal computer just days before leaving PayPal for Goolge.
"By hiring Bedier, with his trade secret knowledge of PayaPl's plans and understanding of Goog.l..
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