Elon Musk could sue Meta for the release of Threads
The owner of Twitter plans to start a legal process against Meta due to the similarity of Zuckerberg's new platform
Yesterday’s presentation of Threads, the new microblogging application with which Meta intends to become Twitter’s main competitor, was answered within a few hours by Elon Musk, since a lawyer for X Corp, the tycoon’s company that controls The social network has threatened to sue Mark Zuckerberg’s company for appropriating the company’s trade secrets and intellectual property for the development of its own platform.
In a letter sent to Zuckerberg on behalf of X Corp by attorney Alex Spiro, from the Quinn Emanuel law firm, the owner of Twitter accuses Meta Platforms of carrying out “systematic, willful and unlawful misappropriation of trade secrets and other Twitter intellectual property.“
X Corp’s lawyer alleges that the company that owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp hired dozens of former Twitter employees who “had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information” assigning them “deliberately” to develop in a matter of months of the ‘Threads’ application, which he calls an “imitation”.
In this sense, it accuses Meta of seeking to accelerate the development of ‘Threads’ through the use of Twitter trade secrets and other intellectual property “in violation of state and federal laws, as well as the obligations of those employees with Twitter “.
Thus, the letter warns that Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information.
“Twitter reserves all rights, including, among others, the right to seek civil and injunctive relief without further notice to prevent Meta from retaining, disclosing, or further using its intellectual property,” the lawyer warned in his letter, to which The American publication ‘Semafor’ had first access.
K. Tovar
Source: Barrons
(Reference image source: Muhammad Asyfaul, Unsplash)
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