Mark Zuckerberg won the case with applicants for part Facebook

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has won another legal dispute with his brothers Uinklvossami who accused him of stealing ideas and code, the world’s largest sotsseti – Court of Appeal confirmed the initial compensation to the twins by refusing to additional payments, the website of the court.

Mark Zuckerberg won the case with applicants for part Facebook

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Tyler and Cameron Uinklvossov (Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss) accept the terms of a settlement agreement with Facebook from 2008, by which they receive $ 65 million in cash and shares in social networks.

Brothers Uinklvossy and Harvard classmate Divya Narendra on (Divya Narendra) in December 2002 decided to create a social network for students “HarvardConnection”. In November 2003, they hired Mark Zuckerberg, explaining to him the idea and provide the text of the developed software package. Within two months, Zuckerberg to avoid contact with Uinklvossami, engaging with the future partner Eduardo Saverin creating your own sotsseti and 6 February 2004 they launched the site thefacebook.com. Uinklvossy asked the university administration’s claim of theft of intellectual property, but the administration has recommended them to go to court.

Zuckerberg accusations denied. This story was widely publicized by the withdrawing in 2010 film “social network”.

Settlement agreement between the parties was signed only in February 2008 but in May 2010 Uinklvossy stated that the compensation was calculated at a much undervalued stocks Facebook, and their company “ConnectU” Zuckerberg demanded additional payments.

“At some point in the proceedings should be completed. The moment has come,” – commented the decision of Judge Alex Kozinski (Alex Kozinski). The representative of Facebook, Colin Stretch (Colin Stretch) said the company is satisfied with the decision of the court, writes Reuters.

However, the 29-year-old brother – well-known athletes and rowers, the finalists of the Beijing Olympics and businessmen – are going to get a rehearing before the court at full strength, said their attorney Jerome Falk Jr. (Jerome Falk Jr.). Board to adopt a solution consisting of three judges and a full bench of nine judges can cancel it, but such precedents are rare. If the plaintiffs did not achieve a rehearing, the last chance for a legal claim against Zuckerberg on this case will appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Facebook for the first three quarters of 2010 generated a revenue volume of 1.2 billion dollars, the documents show that investment bank Goldman Sachs opened its customers by arranging a large round of funding sotsseti in January of this year. In this round of investments Facebook was valued at 50 billion dollars.

According to analysts eMarketer, in 2010, Facebook was only on online advertising 1.86 billion. According to estimates from different banks and alternative exchanges, the present value of Facebook ranges from 50 to 85 billion dollars.

These capitals claim does not alone Uinklvossy. New York City businessman Paul Celia (Paul Seglia), who also is suing Facebook and wants half of the company, on Monday presented to the court a few emails from Zuckerberg allegedly supporting his claim, writes Bloomberg.

According to Celli, in correspondence discusses the development of sotsseti “The Face Book” and the terms of the contract between him and Zuckerberg, concluded in 2003. In particular, Zuckerberg said in a letter to “the urgent need to launch a site until a few undergrads are not running their own, but we did not lose the advantage,” says the plaintiff. Letters are “exactly what you expect from two people who develop the site”, – said the lawyer, Robert Celli Brownlee (Robert Brownlie).

Lawyer Orin Snyder Facebook (Orin Snyder) calls fraudulent claim, and claims Celli – “ridiculous” and says that the company intends to defend its interests in court.