ZeniMax's lawsuit against Oculus, originally filed in 2014, has recently been updated to now name current Oculus chief technology officer John Carmack and the company's CEO Brendan Iribe as defendants in the case.
In documents obtained by IGN, the amended filing, in addition to naming them as defendants, more substantially cites the roles Carmack and Iribe, and Facebook, play in ZeniMax's allegations.
Among the new details not included in the original suit, the latest filing alleges that in 2013 Carmack, who left the ZeniMax-owned id Software, "secretly and illegally copied thousands of documents containing ZeniMax's intellectual property from his computer at ZeniMax to a USB storage device which he wrongfully took with him to Oculus. After he had joined Oculus, Carmack returned to ZeniMax's premises and took without permission a customized tool that Carmack and other ZeniMax personnel had developed for work on virtual reality."
The amended suit also includes Iribe in many of its sections regarding Oculus' actions, including alleging that Iribe "privately directed Luckey and other Oculus employees to continue to obtain ZeniMax's hardware and software technology from Carmack, and Iribe directed Oculus's employees to use that technology to create the Oculus SDK and to develop,modify, and tune the Oculus Rift hardware."
An Oculus spokesperson provided the following statement to IGN:
"This complaint filed by ZeniMax is one-sided and conveys only ZeniMax's interpretation of the story. We continue to believe this case has no merit, and we will address all of ZeniMax's allegations in court."
IGN has reached out to ZeniMax as well for further comment and will update the story should we hear back.
The lawsuit was brought against Oculus by ZeniMax in 2014, previously only naming the company and co-founder Palmer Luckey as defendants. ZeniMax is still seeking damages because they claim the defendants have allegedly "wrongfully taken that ZeniMax intellectual property and commercially exploited it for their own gain" and thus "stand to realize billions of dollars in value from ZeniMax's intellectual property."
The updated suit also updates the full timeline of events, including most recently shipping purchased Oculus Rift models, as well as Facebook completing its acquisition of Oculus, which occurred after the original lawsuit was filed. ZeniMax also claims in the suit that Facebook was fully aware of the non-disclosure agreement signed by Luckey as part of the access to intellectual property ZeniMax provided to him, and that Oculus provided Facebook a copy of the NDA before their Oculus acquisition.
Retail Oculus Rift models began shipping earlier this year.
ZeniMax is still seeking a trial by jury. Stay tuned to IGN for more as the suit develops.
Jonathon Dornbush is an Associate Editor. Find him on Twitter @jmdornbush.
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