Enlarge / Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wanders past oblivious people in Samsung Gear VR headsets in a photo that is not from this trial. (credit: Facebook)

The testimony came during a trial in which ZeniMax Media, parent company of Bethesda Softworks and Id Software, alleges that Doom co-creator John Carmack stole trade secrets and destroyed evidence when he took VR technology developed as a ZeniMax employee over to Oculus when he became its Chief Technology Officer in 2013. Zuckerberg rebutted that idea flatly on the stand, saying, “the idea that Oculus products are based on someone else’s technology is just wrong” (as reported by The New York Times).

In his testimony, Zuckerberg hinted that ZeniMax was simply looking to latch on to Oculus’ success in the wake of the company’s $2 billion acquisition by Facebook in 2014. “It is pretty common when you announce a big deal or do something that all kinds of people just kind of come out of the woodwork and claim that they just own some portion of the deal,” Zuckerberg said (as reported by The New York Times‘ Mike Isaac in this tweet). “Like most people in the court, I’ve never even heard of ZeniMax before. I know that our legal team would look into this and examine, but they aren’t going to take a lot of my time on something they don’t think is credible.”