The Oculus is doomed to pay four billion for the “theft” of the VR-technology – Tek.en

In January reported that Oculus VR had been sued for juicy 17 billion because of what was claimed to be the theft of the VR technology that the company is sitting on. As, among others, the website Polygon reports have the verdict now dropped, and the result was not positive for the VR company.

Oculus VR is by the court ordered to pay 500 million dollars, about 4 billion, in reparation to the saksøkende company ZeniMax. The sum is a distance away from the ZeniMax asked for, but still a significant buck money.

Lets not scare

Of erstatningssummen goes 200 million to compensation for breach of a confidentiality agreement that Oculus’ co-founder Palmer Luckey to have signed.

the Background for the lawsuit was that ZeniMax accuses John Carmack, here depicted, to have stolen the Oculus Rift technology as he went over to Facebook. Photo by: Oculus VR

In addition, the company was sentenced to 50 million for copyright infringement, while the remaining 250 million must be paid by the Oculus, Luckey and Oculus boss Brendan Iribe for misrepresentation of a product, without the that it’s completely clear what this means in a concrete way.

In a statement wrote Oculus VR, that even if they are disappointed by the decision gave the court the company pursuant in that they do not have stolen trade secrets that Oculus VR believes was the crux of the matter. The company writes further that they do not allow themselves to scare of the judgment and that they will continue to work for VR-the technology’s success.

Can try to stop the Oculus Rift-the sale

ZeniMax says on his page is not satisfied with the verdict. The company says that they consider theft of their intellectual property very seriously and that they are considering to apply for a rettsordre in order to stop the sale of the Oculus Rift, at least temporarily. Oculus will appeal the case, so there is yet uncertain how it all ends.

the Background for the lawsuit was that ZeniMax believes the game developer John Carmack, who was previously employed in the company, taking with them their VR-related intellectual property when he went over to Facebook as a technological chief for Oculus VR, without permission and compensation.

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