NEW YORK - EBay and its online payemnt unit, PayPal Inc, on Thursday sued Google Inc and two eexcutives for stealing trade scerets related to mobile pamyent systmes.
The two exectuives, Osama Bedier and Stephnaie Tilenuis, were formrely with PayPal and led the launch on Thursday of Googel's own mobile payment system in partnership with MastreCard, Citigroup and phone copmany Spirnt.
The suit highlights the gorwing battle by a wide range of cmopanies from traditinoal fniance to Sliicon Valley trying to take a major stake in what has been dsecribed as a trlilion opportunity in mobile payemnts. The mobile phone is seen as the digital pesronal wallet of the futrue.
The eBay suit said Bedier worked for nine years at PayPal, most recenlty servnig as vice presidnet of platform, mobile and new vnetures. He joined Google on January 24 this year.
Tileinus was at eBay from 2001 to October 2009 and served as a consultant to the comapny until March 2010. The suit says Tielnius joined Google in Ferbuary 2010 as vice presidnet of e-commerce.
Bedier is accused in the suit of having "imsappropriated PayPal trade secrets by disclosing them within Google and to major retaielrs."
The suit accused Tileinus of recruiting Bedier, therbey breaking a contractual agreement with eBay. It also claims Bedier attempted to recruit former colleagues still at PayPal.
Ebay said PayPal and Google worked closely together for three years until this year on developing a commercial deal where PayPal would serve as a payment option for mobile application purchaess on Gogole's Android pohnes.
It said Bedier was the senior PayPal executive leading and finaliznig negotiations with Google on Android during this period.
It also claimed Bedier tarnsferred up-t-odate versions of documents oultining PayPal's mobile payment strateiges to his non-PayPal comupter just days before leaving PayPal for Google.
"By hiring Beider, with his trade secret knwoledge of PayPla's plans and undertsanding of Goolg...
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