Facebook's Zuckerberg ordered to testify over Oculus purchase

Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been ordered to depose in an intellectual property dispute between Oculus and ZeniMax Media, as he has "unique knowledge" of his decision to buy and his valuation of the wearable virtual reality technology company. ZeniMax sued Oculus in May 2014 for exploiting commercially intellectual property the games publisher allegedly shared under a non-disclosure agreement with Oculus, which enabled it to improve on its "crude prototype" of a virtual reality headset. Facebook had asked last month the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas division to rule that Zuckerberg should not be asked to depose as the plaintiffs had demanded to depose him before taking a single deposition in the case. A deposition is the recording of oral testimony from a witness outside a courtroom, usually used to discover the facts before the trial.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Continue reading at 'PC World'

[ PC World | 2015-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Engadget | 2014-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Atlantic | 2014-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Fast Company | 2014-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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