PayPal, EBay Sue Google Over Mobile Payments Secrets

PayPal and parent eBay have filed a suit against Google and two former executives alleging that they have misappropriated their trade secrets in the area of mobile payments and point-of-sale strategies.

The suit filed Thursday before the Outstanding Homage of the Province of California in the County of Santa Clara also charges two former employees, Osama Bedier and Stephanie Tilenius, who now work with Google, of breaching their obligations to PayPal and eBay.

Google undraped on Thursday its Google Wallet, that will rent out people with special phones invite goods in retail shops by tapping the phones against a payment terminal.

Bedier has as a matter of fact misappropriated PayPal's deal secrets by sharing its mobile payment, point-of-sale, and digital notecase information with Google, the suit says.

EBay and PayPal have alleged that Bedier transferred integer documents outlining PayPal's mobile defrayment and guide-of-sales strategies to a non-PayPal computer a few days in front leaving the company for Google on January. 24 this year. Those documents were dire to its mobile payments scheme, the companies said in the suit.

PayPal and eBay have alleged that Osama Bedier was the senior PayPal executive responsible for mobile, platform, and new ventures. In this role, he was PayPal's senior leader positively charged with bringing its mobile payment and location technologies and services to retailers. Bedier had an intimate knowledge of PayPal's capabilities, strategies, plans, and marketplace intelligence operation regarding mobile defrayal and related technologies, which is selective information constituting in part PayPal's trade secrets, according to the suit, a simulate of which is available along eBay's web site.

Bedier was put in charge of mechanised payments, after he left PayPal for Google. He is now leading Google's efforts to bring repoint-of-sale technologies and services to retailers connected its behalf. In the trend of his work on Google, Bedier and Google have misappropriated PayPal trade secrets by disclosing them within Google and to major retailers, PayPal and eBay have got so-called.

The plaintiffs also allege that Google hired Bedier after some other former eBay executive, Stephanie Tilenius, solicited and recruited him. In doing so, Tilenius violated her contractual obligations to eBay. Before and since his arrival at Google, Bedier has also violated his obligations to eBay by soliciting and recruiting PayPal employees to work on Google, the complaint aforesaid.

Bedier too represented PayPal in negotiations with Google between 2008 and 2020 for using PayPal A a payment option for raiseable app purchases on Google's Android Food market, without informing PayPal that he was interviewing for a Book of Job at Google, according to the ailment.

Google scuttled a deal with PayPal to build a competitive product with former PayPal employees and executives at the helm, it said.

Google could not be reached immediately for its comments on the suit.

PayPal said in its blog that spending time in courtrooms is generally non its thing. Just sometimes the behavior of populate and competitors make action the only significant way for a party to protect its merchandise secrets, one of its near of import assets.

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