In a win for lawyers at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, a Dallas jury hit Facebook-owned Oculus with a $500 million verdict after finding that the company directly infringed on virtual reality technology owned by ZeniMax Media.

ZeniMax, which owns the Texas-based software developer id Software, sued Oculus for copyright infringement in 2014 and added Facebook as a defendant after the social media giant purchased the company for $2 billion.

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