Opera claims former employee gave stolen trade secrets to Mozilla
Opera has been busy repositioning itself as a middleware player for the mobile Web recently, but that isn't stopping the company from defending its investment in browser technology. The company has filed a 20 million Kronor ($3.4 million) lawsuit against a former employee and consultant, claiming that he stole company secrets and incorporated them into a mobile browser for Mozilla.
According to a report by Norwegian IT site Digi.no, Opera has filed suit against Trond Werner Hansen, a Norwegian musician and designer who worked for Opera from 1999 to 2006 as a user interface designer and developer before leaving to pursue his music career. Hansen also worked for Opera as an outside consultant from 2009 to 2010. Last year, Hansen was involved with the development of the Mozilla prototype "Junior" browser for Apple iOS. Hansen and Alex Limi—former Firefox UI head and now manager of Mozilla's product design strategy—demonstrated the browser prototype in a video on Air Mozilla last June.
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