By Owen Wengerd on Monday, February 26, 2007 9:03 PM

After nearly a month of no docket activity, Autodesk and ODA attorneys on Friday jointly filed a motion requesting a 30 day stay of proceedings. According to the motion [47], "The parties are now in the process of drafting final settlement documents and are optimistic that this will resolve the matter with finality."

By Owen Wengerd on Thursday, February 08, 2007 6:57 PM

Deelip Menezes has an ongoing discussion on his blog about ownership and control of data files generally, and AutoCAD DWG files in particular. If you're interested in a small sample of opinions on the subject, I highly recommend Deelip's cogent commentary. I've added to the grapevine two recent posts from the discussion that are fairly directly related to the lawsuit, but the entire discussion is at least tangentially relevant.