{"id":563,"date":"2014-04-11T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/2014\/04\/11\/autodesk-sets-the-record-straight\/"},"modified":"2014-04-11T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T14:00:00","slug":"autodesk-sets-the-record-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/autodesk-sets-the-record-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"Autodesk Sets the Record Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-size: 11pt;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">Last month Autodesk sought a preliminary injunction against the makers of ZWCAD+ software in the Netherlands. &#160;We believe ZWCAD+ was developed with unauthorized use of our code \u2013 specifically AutoCAD 2008 code. For more than 30 years, our flagship product AutoCAD has been used by millions of amazing architects, designers, engineers and creative professionals that imagine, design and create the world around us.&#160;We can\u2019t tolerate copying or taking of our intellectual property: it\u2019s a disservice to us and our customers.&#160;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">&#160;<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 11pt;margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">Since ZWCAD affiliates recently made some rather misleading declarations about the lawsuit, we\u2019d like to set the record straight here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 11pt;margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&#160;<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">On April 7, the court issued its ruling.&#160; ZWCAD Design has characterized the ruling as a \u201clandslide win.\u201d&#160; Hardly. 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This is a multi-step legal process that\u2019s going to take a while.&#160; And although the court did not issue the preliminary injunction, it did order the deposit of ZWCAD+ source code, build and mastering scripts, third-party binary components and libraries, opening the door for a third-party code-level review of both ZWCAD+ and AutoCAD in subsequent proceedings.&#160; <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">&#160;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">Specifically, the court found that \u201c[t]he fact that many functions of AutoCAD 2008 that do not make a logical contribution for the user regarding the operation of the system or that can be classified as errors return in ZWCAD+ offers, in our provisional opinion, sufficient grounds to allow the claimed relief, no matter the explanations given by the defendants regarding these similarities.\u201d &#160;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">&#160;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">We view the judge\u2019s decision as a step in the right direction and look forward to the review.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month Autodesk sought a preliminary injunction against the makers of ZWCAD+ software in the Netherlands. &#160;We believe ZWCAD+ was developed with unauthorized use of our code \u2013 specifically AutoCAD 2008 code. 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