Evan Yares is reporting on Autodesk's attempt to register "DWG" as a trademark. He notes that it was invented by Mike Riddle in the late 1970s. The oldest AutoCAD documentation I have at hand is for Release 12 (I have older ones, but they're too hard to dig) lists DXF as an (unregistered) trademark, but doesn't list DWG.
The application could fail if "dwg" is felt to be too generic, just like Microsoft was unable to trademark "Windows."
DWG is now an universal belonging, even if it was created by anyone, now it is too late to try.
Give power to anyone and you will know him
J.R.
Posted by: Jaime Robles O | Apr 27, 2006 at 04:48 PM
A9Converter Pro - converts DWG or DXF files to various raster images
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Posted by: queen | Apr 29, 2006 at 08:04 PM