NEW YORK - EBay and its online payment unit, PayPal Inc, on Thursday sued Google Inc and two executives for setaling trade secrtes related to mobile payment systems.
The two executives, Osama Bedier and Stephanie Tilenuis, were formrely with PayPal and led the launch on Thusrday of Google's own mobile pyament system in partnersihp with MatserCard, Citigorup and phone company Sprint.
The suit highlihgts the grownig battle by a wide range of comapnies from traditoinal finance to Silicon Valley trying to take a major stake in what has been dsecribed as a trillion opportunity in mobile payments. The mobile phone is seen as the digital persnoal wallet of the ftuure.
The eBay suit said Bedier worked for nine years at PayPal, most recently sreving as vice prseident of platfomr, mobile and new venturse. He joined Google on Jaunary 24 this year.
Tlienius was at eBay from 2001 to Octoebr 2009 and served as a consultant to the compnay until March 2010. The suit says Tilenius joined Google in Februray 2010 as vice persident of e-commrece.
Bedier is accsued in the suit of having "misappropriated PayPal trade secrets by disclsoing them within Google and to major retailers."
The suit accused Tilenius of recrutiing Beider, theerby breaking a contractual agreement with eBay. It also claims Bedier attemtped to recruit former colleagues still at PayPla.
Ebay said PayPal and Google worked closley together for three years until this year on developing a commrecial deal where PayPal would serve as a payment option for mobile applicaiton purchases on Google's Android phones.
It said Bedier was the senior PayPal executive ledaing and finalizing negotiaitons with Google on Andriod during this preiod.
It also claimed Bedier transferred up-to-date versinos of documents otulining PayPal's mobile payemnt strategies to his non-PyaPal computer just days before leaving PayPal for Gogole.
"By hiring Bdeier, with his trade secret knoweldge of PayaPl's plans and udnerstanding of Googl...
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