entry of judgment holding defendants liable for misappropriating Autodesk’s trade secrets.

entry of judgment holding defendants liable for infringing the Autodesk copyrights.

This duplication, which is at the source code level, could not have been accomplished through coincidence or the application of similar programming logic.” The complaint cites “the existence of ‘bugs,’ programming remnants, and other idiosyncrasies in software code” that suggest a shared origin.Īutodesk is asking for, among other things: In crucial and unmistakable ways, ZWCAD+ performs identically to prior versions of AutoCAD. District Court, Northern California, Autodesk writes, “The ‘new’ ZWCAD+ is not merely an AutoCAD ‘work-a-like,’ and it does not just share similar interfaces and commands. market), alleging copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation (case summery here). On March 26, the company filed a case against ZWCAD Software Co., Ltd., ZWCAD Design Co., Ltd., and Global Force Direct, LLC.

Did China-based ZWSOFT copy some of Autodesk’s AutoCAD code while developing a competing product? Autodesk seems to think so.

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