{"id":16,"date":"2006-08-29T11:48:38","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T06:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/16.htm"},"modified":"2020-04-05T12:24:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T06:54:04","slug":"autocad-drafting-news-autodesk-fined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/autocad-drafting-news-autodesk-fined\/","title":{"rendered":"AutoCAD Drafting News: Autodesk Fined"},"content":{"rendered":"<table id=\"AutoNumber1\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; height: 151px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"549\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 32%;\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68%;\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 32%;\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/2020-04-04_15-17-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5718\" src=\"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/2020-04-04_15-17-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/2020-04-04_15-17-14.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/2020-04-04_15-17-14-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68%;\" valign=\"top\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: -6px; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Our favorite CAD software manufacturer has suffered a hit. Because of a patent infringement suit filed against them by Z4 Technlogies regarding the product activation software AutoCAD employs, U.S. District Judge Leonard Davis of Texas ordered Autodesk to pay an <strong>$18 million<\/strong> fine.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"> This of course will not wreck Autodesk, which has revenues in excess of $1 billion, but still, it&#8217;s a tough pill for Autodesk to swallow!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">If it&#8217;s any consolation, mighty <strong>Microsoft <\/strong>was fined too: <strong>$140 million !!!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/management.cadalyst.com\/cadman\/article\/articleDetail.jsp?id=368023&amp;ref=25\">Read more about this event here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"lucky2\" src=\"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/lucky2.gif\" alt=\"lucky2\" width=\"244\" height=\"59\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our favorite CAD software manufacturer has suffered a hit. Because of a patent infringement suit filed against them by Z4 Technlogies regarding the product activation software AutoCAD employs, U.S. District Judge Leonard Davis of Texas ordered Autodesk to pay an $18 million fine. This of course will not wreck Autodesk, which has revenues in excess&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cad-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5778,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/5778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}