Facebook recently was in the process of settling with ConnectU, but the social network has found new evidence supporting its lawsuit against Facebook. ConnectU will resume its case against Facebook for copying its original business plan.
founders Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra had filed a lawsuit against Facebook in 2004 and claimed that Facebook’s founder & CEO Mark Zuckerberg had copied their code and business plan while he was an employee for ConnectU. All four went to Harvard University at that time.
But later the two parties
settled their differences and reached an out-of-court settlement, with Facebook giving ConnectU a large undisclosed amount of money.
On Wednesday, however, there appears to be a breakthrough in the case. ConnectU now
claims they have found incriminating evidence against Facebook and it came from the Facebook’s servers itself. ConnectU’s forensic expert Jeff Parmet, while searching the Facebook’s servers, have found instant message logs that seems to support ConnectU’s case.
Parmet presented this evidence on Wednesday to Massachusetts district court judge Douglas P. Woodlock. But Woodlock wants to know first how ConnectU will resolve the settlement issue they signed with Facebook.
Facebook representatives could not be immediately reached for comment regarding this new development.
ConnectU: We're not done with Facebook
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