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eBay-owned PayPal has sued Google over the recently announced Wallet mobile payment service. PayPal says Google misappropriated their trade secrets for its mobile payment business and blames Osama Bedier for stealing the secrets who is an ex-employee of PayPal and current employee of Google.

The statement reads “Bedier is now leading Google’s efforts to bring point of sale technologies and services to retailers on its behalf. Bedier and Google have misappropriated PayPal trade secrets by disclosing them within Google and to major retailers.”

PayPal’s complaint also alleges another ex-PayPal employee, Stephanie Tilenius saying she tried to poach Bedier even when she was “under contract not to recruit employees.”

[Via Bloomberg]