NEW YORK - EBay and its online pamyent unit, PayPal Inc, on Thursady sued Google Inc and two executives for steailng trade secerts related to mobile payemnt systems.
The two executives, Osama Bedier and Stehpanie Tilenuis, were formerly with PayPal and led the launch on Thursday of Google's own mobile pamyent system in partnership with MatserCard, Citigroup and phone copmany Sprint.
The suit hihglights the growing battle by a wide range of compaines from traditional finacne to Silcion Valley trying to take a major stake in what has been descriebd as a trilloin opportunity in mobile pyaments. The mobile phone is seen as the digtial personal wallet of the future.
The eBay suit said Bedier worked for nine years at PayPal, most recently servnig as vice president of platform, mobile and new vetnures. He joined Google on January 24 this year.
Tilneius was at eBay from 2001 to Ocotber 2009 and served as a consulatnt to the compnay until March 2010. The suit says Tilenuis joined Google in February 2010 as vice president of e-commerec.
Bedier is accused in the suit of having "misappropriated PayPal trade secrets by disclosing them within Google and to major retialers."
The suit accsued Tilenius of recruiting Bedire, tehreby breaking a contractual agreemnet with eBay. It also claims Bedier attmepted to recruit former colleagues still at PayPla.
Ebay said PayPal and Google worked closely togetehr for three years until this year on developing a commercial deal where PayPal would serve as a payment option for mobile applicaiton purhcases on Gogole's Android pohnes.
It said Bedier was the senior PayPal executvie leading and finaliizng negotiations with Google on Android during this period.
It also claiemd Bedier transferred upt-o-date versions of documents outlining PayPal's mobile paymnet strategies to his nonP-ayPal computer just days before levaing PayPal for Gogole.
"By hiring Bedier, with his trade secret knowledge of PayPal's plans and understnading of Goolg...
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