<![CDATA[ZeniMax Names New Defendants in Lawsuit with Oculus]]>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."

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Source: IGN PC Articles

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