It was the latest dramatic turn in a case that had been set for trial Tuesday morning, featuring two leading IP lawyers: Michael Jacobs for software giant Autodesk Inc. and Claude Stern for Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. The case raised the unique issue of whether a software company could trademark a widely used name for a type of computer file.
Autodesk, represented by Morrison & Foerster’s Jacobs, sued SolidWorks for trademark infringement over the use of three letters: DWG. That’s the extension given to design files, much like .jpg is given to photos or .txt is given to text files.
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