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A small software startup called LimitNone has filed a lawsuit against Google alleging that Google copied a tool that moves email users from Microsoft Outlook to Google's Gmail.

LimitNone claims that Google blocked the company from an estimated "$950 million dollar opportunity" by developing its "Google Email Uploader" as a competitor to LimitNone's similar tool called gMove.

LimitNone says it created gMove as part of an official Google developer program and was told that Google would not develop a similar tool. The suit alleges that Google broke its promise and developed its own software based on LimitNone's technology.

In the suit LimitNone alleges that a Google employee told the company the opportunity was "just too big to come from someone else."

gMove does not have a patent, but LimitNone and its attorneys, Kelley Drye & Warren, are hoping to prove Google copied the company's trade secrets.

Google launched its free competing email migration tool, "Google Email Uploader" earlier this year, which the suit claims is "almost identical" to gMove and that "both operate under a similar conceptual design."

After Google began to compete with it, Palatine, Illinois-based LimitNone focused its business on the emerging market for business software developed to work on the Apple iPhone.