By Owen Wengerd on Wednesday, January 06, 2010 12:38 AM

A settlement agreement was reached literally in the middle of the night before the trial was to start Tuesday morning. The settlement agreement is confidential, but there are some consequences of the agreement worth mentioning, and that I'm sure will be discussed in more detail over the coming weeks. The issue of Autodesk's attempt to trademark "DWG" must still be resolved by the US Patent and Trademark Office. I suspect that Autodesk was hoping to use the lawsuit to gain some new advantage in the trademark fight, but I think if anything they lost ground, so it will be interesting to see where the trademark fight goes.