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Facebook’s Smoking Gun in the Ceglia Case? The Authentic Contract

12 pointsby wicknicksalmost 14 years ago

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thinkcompalmost 14 years ago
This is the pinnacle of hypocrisy.<p>I issued countless document requests to Facebook in the course of litigation over the FACEBOOK trademarks (see <a href="http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=92049206" rel="nofollow">http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=92049206</a>). I am not a known felon, I have no criminal record, and the claims were legitimate enough that Facebook eventually settled. I responded with hundreds of pages of categorized documents to Facebook's requests. To this day Facebook has not provided any of the documents I requested, even though they clearly exist.<p>It's nice to know that Paul Ceglia is the con man we already knew he was, but let it be known that Mark Zuckerberg has behaved repeatedly in the exact same manner as the con man he detests.<p>Here is how Facebook responds to valid document requests:<p>"Facebook objects to this Request on the ground that it seeks discovery that is not relevant or reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence. Facebook further objects to this Request to the extent that it seeks documents protected from disclosure by the attorney-client communication and/or attorney work product privileges. Subject to and without waiving the foregoing objections and General Objections and Responses, Facebook responds as follows: Facebook has generally objected to Petitioner's First Set of Interrogatories...and has no obligation to respond to Petitioner's First Set of Interrogatories at this time."<p>Even after filing a Motion to Compel Discovery (see <a href="http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/ttabvue-92049206-CAN-24.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/ttabvue-92049206-CAN-24.pdf</a>) I never got to see the documents.