A complaint by Paul from Wellsville Ceglie said that a seven-year contract he signed with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to develop software entitles you to 84 percent of the company.
"Nobody ever said it is not signed or is a fake contract," said Terrence Connors Ceglie lawyer during a hearing in federal court in Buffalo.
Connors said the two men met when Zuckerberg, then a freshman at Harvard University, she answered an ad posted on Craigslist Ceglie was looking for someone to develop software for a database of street mapping that was created.
Zuckerberg offered to take the project Ceglie for $ 1. 000, Connors said, and then said Ceglie on a personal project, a kind of online yearbook for Harvard students who wanted to expand.
Ceglie Zuckerberg said he gave another $ 1,000 to continue work on "Zuckerberg Face Book," with the condition that Ceglie possess a 50 per cent in the business of software and if expanded. The percentage rose to 84 percent on the basis of a clause that adds a percentage point for each day the project went beyond its January 1, 2004, expiration date.
Zuckerberg company "at the time was a project pipeline," said Connors. "Who knew that would become what it has become today."
Facebook has just celebrated its 500 million users, said Connors.
In the center of the claim Ceglie is a two-page "wage labor" contract with the names of the two men.
Facebook Lisa Simpson lawyer acknowledged Tuesday that Zuckerberg and Ceglie had worked together on the website of the street-mapping, but said the contract submitted by Ceglie was full of "inconsistencies, undefined terms and things that make no sense."
"We have serious doubts about the authenticity of this contract," Simpson said U.S. U.S. District Judge Richard Arcaro. "What the contract states that there is a link on Facebook and no one."
Ceglie complaint was filed in the Supreme Court in Allegany County on 30 June and moved to federal court at the request of Facebook. A temporary restraining order Judge Facebook status from the transfer of assets were frozen by the federal judge last week. Both sides agreed Tuesday to let it expire July 23.
The lawyers also agreed to develop a timetable for submission in the case of 06 August after Ceglie said lawyers can file a new version of its complaint with Facebook's lawyers said he planned to file a motion to dismiss it completely.
Ceglie was the subject of a temporary restraining order issued by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, in December 2009, after Cuomo said a company operated by wood-pellets Ceglie and his wife took more than $ 200,000 from consumers and did not the pellets or refunds.
The case is pending.
A phone list Pellets Allegany was not in service Tuesday.
In 2008, Palo Alto, California, Facebook settled a lawsuit over its origins brought by three of his former Harvard classmates of Zuckerberg, who said he gave the idea for Facebook after being hired to work on a website later ConnectU became.
