PayPal vs. Google: A timeline of 'stolen' secrets
Former PayPal employees Stephanie Tilenius and Osama Bedier, seen here at this week's Google Wallet launch, are at the center of a lawsuit alleging trade-secret theft.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- PayPal and its parent company eBay sued Google this week. The company claims that two of its former top executives violated their contracts by sharing confidential information with Google and by negotiating with Google despite a clear conflict of interest.
California courts are famously unfriendly to employee non-compete agreements -- which means eBay will have a hard fight to prove its case. Here's a timeline of what eBay says happened, based on the details provided in its lawsuit.
March 12, 2001: Stephanie Tilenius joins eBay's staff and signs the company's non-disclosure agreement (NDA), agreeing not to solicit any eBay (EBAY, Fortune 500) employees for one year after leaving the company and not to disclose confidential eBay information.
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