The Virtual Reality community has set its eyes and ears for the decision of the feral court in Dallas, Texas after ZeniMax filed a $ 4 billion law suit to Facebook and its recently acquired company Oculus. ZeniMax, claimed that Oculus heisted its code to build the VR pioneer Oculus Rift. Both sides have closed their respective arguments on the matter and ZeniMax is demanding $2 billion damages and another $ 2 billion for punitive damages.
According to Polygon, Oculus lawyer Beth Wilkinson exclaimed to the jury that ZeniMax's multi-billion dollar lawsuit is because of the latter's jealousy, anger and embarrassment with the success of the Oculus VR headset. She argued that the company behind "Doom" was not even interested in the VR technology in the first place pointing that the company sued Oculus in 2014 which is a year after its initial success.
On the other hand, plaintiff attorney Anthony Sammi said that they bringing this to the jury because the defendants stole something very valuable from his client. They claimed that within Oculus' software are codes that were copied from "Rage VR" testbed and "Doom 3" BFG edition which were intellectual properties of ZeniMax. Moreover, Sammi claimed that Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey violated the non disclosure agreement (NDA) when he used ZeniMax owned information without permission and sharing it to Facebook.
Road to VR also reported that Facebook's involvement in the case was triggered with its procurement of Oculus for $ 2 billion in cash and stock. ZeniMax accused Facebook of acquiring Oculus knowing that the company is accused of misappropriating Zenimax's trade secrets. However, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg testified that they acquired Oculus in such haste that they overlooked the issued within Rift. Zuckerberg also claimed that he had never even heard of ZeniMax before the case was filed in 2014.
The jury has started deliberating on the case taking on consideration all facts, evidences and testimonies into account. Maybe they'll incline with the violated NDA point or they will be convinced that ZeniMax is just after Facebook's deep pockets. Either way the jury will have a decision anytime soon.
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