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Today a US judge ruled that a lawsuit filed against Oculus co-founder, Palmer Luckey, will go ahead. The lawsuit comes from a company known as Total Recall Technologies, which employed Luckey in 2011 to build a head-mounted display, prior to the Oculus Rift Kickstarter in 2012.
Total Recall Technologies claims that Palmer Luckey breached a confidentiality agreement over information and feedback gained from developing the head-mounted display. It is currently alleged that Luckey used information from his time with the company to form Oculus and run the successful Rift Kickstarter campaign.
This lawsuit was initially filed following Facebook's acquisition of Oculus and due to this, Luckey commented at the time saying that this was “a brazen attempt to secure for itself a stake” in the acquisition. Similar comments were made about the lawsuit against Oculus from Zenimax, following the hiring of John Carmack, a long time employee of the subsidiary, id Software.
The lawsuit from Total Recall Technologies will go to trial later this year.
KitGuru Says: Several lawsuits have been thrown at Oculus since Facebook bought it so it looks like Palmer Luckey could be finding himself in a bit of a legal bind later this year when trials kick off though it could take some time for a resolution to be reached.
Whenever there is big money to be found, parasite will always follow.
An interesting development.
Sounds like these lawsuits were going to happen no matter what, just waiting until there are actually mony to get, if they laid the lawsuit straight away they might win but win what, there wasnt really any money in the company before facebook bought it up. The only companies that place lawsuits straight away are big companies that either want to force the smaller companies into being a part of them or maie sure they disappears before they get a foothold.
U call them parasites, most people in the industry will just call it a logical step that can now finally go ahead
But you see that shows their intent is to milk money off of the accused rather than protecting their product… hence why I call them parasites.
If that company actually had a product or was working on a product, then protecting it immediately should be the concern. Strategically waiting to sue only reveals their true motivation.
TRT and Zenimax are just trying to exploit their former employees to make some quick cash. Neither company is interested in creating a competing VR product.
I don’t disagree there at all, but sadly thats how most of these companies are so I have come to accept that its all about money, there might also be some protection of property going on but again remember that if they win they also win the right to money and if there isnt any money then why not wait until there is, you and I would argue that the sooner u sue the more chance u have of showing that u actually have a claim to what ever u sue for, but in the business world u can wait for ages before u sie even if its clear from day one that a company might be using ur technology, knowledge, colour or what ever people sue for these days. I mean we have companies today that only life of buying up patents and then suing other companies for using set patents even though they never invented it themselves, money makes the world go around these days sadly
Palmer Luckey was once at one of my dinner parties in 2010. We were all drunk and I placed one of my kitchen bowls on his head. While staggering around, Palmer said, “Wow..it’s like a different world in here”. Needless to say, I am sueing him for $$$.
that is like the samething with facebook and zuckenburg their all connected stealing and making billions i like facebook and oculus rift i love people because Jesus loves me