Legal Research

Note to Firm: It’s Not a Secret if You Tell People

Last year Facebook paid $65 million to make ConnectU go away. (The founders of ConnectU claim that Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerburg stole their idea and code.) Details of the settlement were sealed by the judge.

I shouldn’t be able to tell you how much the settlement cost Facebook. However, ConnectU’s former law firm, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, had a brain cramp and published it in their January 2009 newsletter.

No word on whether Quinn Emanuel poked ConnectU to say, “Sorry!”

Full post as published by Jenkins Webblits on February 11, 2009 (boomark / email).