Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey seems to have something about him, that compels many he meets to…well, sue him. Or maybe its just the money. ZeniMax is still out there stirring trouble however, Oculus recently caught a break as a lawsuit filed against it by Total Recall Technologies (TRT) was dismissed by a northern California court.
There were two major lawsuits against Oculus VR, which had the scope of damaging the company substantially because of the possibility of an injunction. As such, this dismissal is bound to have made Luckey and co. happy.
Appraently, what happened here was slightly different from what took place at ZeniMax. TRT solicited Luckey in December 2010 and asked for his help in designing a virtual reality headset with TR paying for the parts. Apparently, the company wanted exclusive rights to the device. However, after Luckey had completed an initial build, communication between the two parties ceased and TRT wasn’t interested enough to ask for their build back.
Total Recall Technologies had filed a lawsuit against Luckey, claiming that the latter was in violation of a non-disclosure agreement signed by him. The lawsuit was filed in May 2015.
Meanwhile, a northern California court has dismissed the case as unsubstantiated. So it seems like Oculus won’t be fighting a legal war on two fronts. The company is already busy preventing ZeniMax from taking a piece out of its hide.
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