Federal court enforces Facebook trade secret settlement with ConnectU – Barry Law – DC government contracts, licensing, cyberlaw and intellectual property attorney

Federal court enforces Facebook trade secret settlement with ConnectU

Federal court enforces Facebook trade secret settlement with ConnectU:

[JURIST] A US District Court for the Northern District of California judge Wednesday granted a motion to enforce a previous settlement agreement between two social networking websites, Facebook and ConnectU. The ruling effectively ends the two companies’ ongoing legal battle concerning ownership of source code forming the basis of Facebook, the popular social networking site. The two sides had agreed on a settlement in February, but ConnectU had sought to annul that agreement, arguing that Facebook had committed fraud in the procurement, material terms were missing, and the agreement did not reflect the parties’ intentions. Judge Ware rejected ConnectU’s arguments of unclear terms and fraud, writing:

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