You might have heard that ZeniMax and Oculus have been in court recently. ZeniMax was alleging that id Software founder John Carmack used some data that belonged to ZeniMax to help develop the Oculus Rift, and it does seem that there was some wrongdoing involved because a judge awarded the lawsuit in ZeniMax's favour to the tune of half a billion dollars over a breach of NDA. Now ZeniMax have said they might go a step further
In a statement provided to Polygon, ZeniMax said they may seek an injunction to temporarily stop the sale of Oculus Rift headsets. If they're successful, this could put a real spanner in the works of Oculus' plans as they attempt to keep control in a growing VR market that right now they're no longer the only player doing well in.
"We will consider what further steps we need to take to ensure there will be no ongoing use of our misappropriated technology, including by seeking an injunction to restrain Oculus and Facebook from their ongoing use of computer code that the jury found infringed ZeniMax’s copyrights.
"While we regret we had to litigate in order to vindicate our rights, it was necessary to take a stand against companies that engage in illegal activity in their desire to get control of new, valuable technology."
Oculus themselves are planning an appeal against the case they just lost, and Carmack has come out since the result denying that he destroyed data when leaving ZeniMax - another point of contention brought up during the lawsuit.
