Image via CrunchBaseThe founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has straight forwardly asserted that all the evidences, including the alleged emails and signed documents, which form a part of the lawsuit by a New York resident regarding the claim of part ownership in Facebook are completely fake. The official statement of Mark Zuckerberg was recorded in the paper filings submitted by his attorneys in federal court in Buffaloon on Thursday. The attorneys emphasized that they would like to speed up the process of getting access to the original documents, as only the carbon copies of actual documents were filed in the lawsuit of Paul Ceglia. Furthermore Zuckerberg’s attorneys also requested the court to further inspect the computer and other such personal computer gadgets of Ceglia.
The official response filed to the lawsuit asserted that "the contract is a cut-and-paste job, the emails are complete fabrications and this entire lawsuit is a fraud." It was mentioned that "Zuckerberg has now declared under oath that he did not sign the contract attached to Ceglia's complaint and that he did not write or receive any of the purported emails."
The prominent lawsuit filed by Ceglia was initially brought under light in 2010, though it later had to be filed again in April 2011. It is fundamentally based mostly on two-page "work for hire" contract, which ties down the names of both Zuckerberg and Ceglia. The resident of Wellsville in Allegany County, Ceglia, claims that he had a contract signing with Zuckerberg in the times when he was still a Harvard University student. He asserts that he initially began helping Zuckerberg with the street-mapping database recreation he was working on. Ceglia claims he even paid $1,000 to Zuckerberg for his services. It was also alleged in the lawsuit, that later Ceglia again gave Zuckerberg additional $1,000 in support for his idea, which turned out to be Facebook, on the condition that Ceglia would get 50 percent of whatever comes off of it.
"We're very happy to see that they agree with us in moving this process along as quickly as possible," reported Vacco, one of the attorneys for Ceglia. The last set of filings submitted by Facebook asks the court to have a forensic examination to analyze Ceglia's submitted evidneces. Vacco stated that "so-called expert opinions have been provided without examining the actual contract which is at issue in the case."
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