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Google Hit With $1 Billion Lawsuit Over Trade Secrets
LimitNone filed the lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court in Illinois earlier this week. The startup is accusing Google of stifling competition through misappropriation of the smaller company's trade secrets. LimitNone is seeking punitive and actual damages, plus attorney fees. Starting in March 2007, the owners of LimitNone met with Google representatives to discuss the smaller company's gMove software, according to the complaint. The technology made it possible to move Microsoft Outlook data, such as e-mail, to Google's Gmail, which is part of the company's package of software that offers an online alternative to Microsoft's Office productivity suite. For nine months, LimitNone worked closely with Google engineers on developing version 2.0 of gMove. In addition, LimitNone met with Google business customers to test the migration tool. LimitNone agreed to share its technology with the understanding that it would be kept confidential. Google, however, did not sign a non-disclosure agreement. In December 2007, Google told LimitNone that it had decided to build its own migration tool, which later became Google Gmail Loader. |
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