Date: 04-01-2010

Case Style: SCO Group v. Novell, Inc.

Case Number: 2:04-cv-00139-TS

Judge: Ted Stewart

Court: United States District Court for the District of Utah, Salt Lake County

Plaintiff's Attorney: Jason Cyrulnik, Bill Dzurilla, Mauricio Gonzalez, Bob Silver, Stuart Singer and Steve Zack, Boies Schiller & Flexner, Armonk, New York and Fort Lauderdale, California and Brent Hatch, Hatch, James & Dodge, Salt Lake City, Utah; Mike Jacobs and Dan Muino, Morrison & Foerster, San Francisco, California

Defendant's Attorney: Cara Baldwin, Sterling Bernnan, Kirk Harris and David Wright, Workman Nydegger, Salt Lake City, Utah; Tom Karrenberg, Anderson & Karrenberg, Salt Lake City, Utah

Description: SCO Group sued Novell, Inc. on a copyright infringement theory claiming that SCO purchased the rights to the Unix operating system from Santa Cruz Operations which Plaintiff claimed it purchased from Novell in 1995. SCO sought damages of $215 million from Novell. It claimed that IBM and Novell had worked together against SCO.

Novell denied that it sold the copyrights to the computer operating system to Santa Cruz Group and further claimed that SCO did not own the copyright to the operating system.

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