After four years, ZeniMax has settled its lawsuit with Facebook and Oculus
It appears that after a four year legal struggle, ZeniMax, parent company of Bethesda Studios, and Facebook have come to an agreement over copyright issues regarding the Oculus Rift. ZeniMax sued Oculus VR back in 2014, as they believed that the two founders of Oculus had stolen trade secrets from id Software, another subsidiary of ZeniMax. John Carmack, who had still been working at id Software at the time went on to become the co-founder of Oculus and developed the virtual reality technology behind the headset, which ZeniMax claimed Carmack had used code and trademarked information from id/ZeniMax in order to create the Oculus. When Facebook had purchased Oculus shortly after the lawsuit had begun, they were then in charge of dealing with the legal fallout, which has continued until December 12, 2018, where both businesses have made a settlement outside of court.
In 2017, a trial began officially in Texas, with a jury deciding to award ZeniMax $500 million dollars for damages (with the company originally seeking to win $2 billion from Facebook), however the court's judge overturned the ruling and lowered the amount to $250 million. ZeniMax had been in the process of appealing that decision, but that has ended due to a settlement being reached. The results of the agreement were not disclosed, but ZeniMax's CEO stated, "We are pleased that a settlement has been reached and are fully satisfied by the outcome." On the Facebook side of things, a PR spokesperson simply said that the company was happy to put the issue behind them and move on.
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