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START-UP SUES GOOGLE OVER E-MAIL SWITCHING TOOL

Google has been named in a trade secrets lawsuit alleging that the company's business software unit copied a tiny start-up's tool for moving customers off of Microsoft software onto Google's. LimitNone filed a complaint in an Illinois circuit court alleging that Google at first began promoting the smaller firm's tool for migrating Microsoft Outlook customers to Gmail, then copied the idea and went into competition with it. [Washington Post]

Full post as published by The Trade Secrets Vault on June 27, 2008 (boomark / email).