We will enhance our internal management to prevent any intellectual property infringement in the future by instituting additional development safeguards.”įurther down in the ZWSoft press release (how interesting that it’s not in Autodesk’s release as well): Autodesk’s SVP for AsiaPac, Patrick Williams said that Autodesk is “grateful for ZWSoft’s cooperation in resolving this matter amicably. We sincerely apologize to Autodesk for the inconvenience that our actions have caused … We appreciate very much Autodesk’s professionalism and understanding during the investigation, as well as its encouragement of fair competition. We have stopped selling ZWCAD+ in all markets, and we retract all prior statements suggesting that Autodesk’s lawsuits lack merit and were brought for anti-competitive purposes.
The parties have entered into a binding settlement to resolve their pending lawsuits, with an undisclosed sum provided to Autodesk.”įor its part, ZWSoft CEO, Truman Du, said that “We respect every company’s IP very much, and we do not condone these behaviors at ZWSoft. According to Autodesk, ZWSoft “discovered that an employee had … improperly used AutoCAD intellectual property developing ZWCAD+. As a result of this discovery, ZWSoft’s CEO, Truman Du, has publicly acknowledged ZWSoft’s error and agreed to stop selling, licensing, or otherwise making available ZWCAD+ from all markets, effective immediately. Autodesk and ZWSoft, maker of ZWCAD, just announced that they have settled their dispute over who improperly used what intellectual property (IP).
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