• Paypal and Google dispute trade secret stealing

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    Looks like that someone is trying to sue search engine Giant Google recently. It is reported that Paypal sued Google for stealing its trade secret to develop its own mobile payment system named 'Google Wallet'. Paypal said that Google and it's two ex-executives Osama Bedier and Stephanie Tilenius has stolen the trade secrets from paypel.


    Paypal said in it's complaint, "Defendant Osama Bedier was the senior PayPal executive responsible for Mobile, Platform, and New Ventures. In this role, he was PayPal’s senior leader charged with bringing its mobile payment and point of sale technologies and services to retailers. Through this work, he had an intimate knowledge of PayPal’s capabilities, strategies, plans, and market intelligence regarding mobile payment and related technologies — information constituting in part PayPal’s trade secrets. Bedier left PayPal for Google on or about January 24, 2011, and was put in charge of Mobile Payments. He is now leading Google’s efforts to bring point of sale technologies and services to retailers on its behalf. In the course of his work at Google, Bedier and Google have misappropriated PayPal trade secrets by disclosing them within Google and to major retailers."

    Looks like google has to give some explanation and Google said in it's given statment to the media, ""We respect trade secrets and will defend ourselves against these claims, Silicon Valley was built on the ability of individuals to use their knowledge and expertise to seek better employment opportunities, an idea recognized by both California law and public policy,".

    Moreover, Google and Paypal were earlier working on payment system for android market where Paypal had helped Google extensively to understand mobile payment.

    Now Paypal believes that Google has stolen secrets through its ex-employees.

    According to the complaint, Telenius repeatedly asked Bedier to join Google, even though she was under contract not to solicit PayPal execs for at least a year. However Tilenius allegedly sent Bedier this Facebook note in July 2009:

    "How are you? Hope the wife and kids are well... hard to believe you have 4 kids, they all just be so big now. I heard from a little birdie that you might be open to bigger and better challenges, I have a HUGE opportunity for you, would love to chat if you are interested."
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