SCO vs. Novell Trial

In 2003, SCO Group wanted to get Linux users to pay license fees to SCO , saying that they were illegally using copy written 'property' that had been improperly included into Linux. The SCO group believes that they are the owners of UNIX. Novell, says that they are still the actual owners of UNIX, and even trademarked some key Unix products.
So in January 2004, a "Slander of title" lawsuit was file against Novell. Over the next year, both SCO and Novell went back and forth with the Federal Court system and the State court, filing petitions on who had the copyright ownership. In 2005 Novell went after SCO, because they stated that SCO was accepting monies from Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, and not giving any of it to Novell. If Novell won the motion, it would cause SCO to file bankruptcy. In 2006, it came out that years before when SCo was called Caldera, they had signed contracts with SuSe (who Novell now owns), that stated that each member would have licenses to distribute Linux products. Novell, filed suits against this allegation, and Novell also got some copies of licensing agreements between SCO and Microsoft and Sun. It was then determined that SCO had breached the APA, and Novell wanted the monies that they believed they owned the royalties to. In 2007 it was ruled that Novell was in fact the owner of the UNIX and InixWare Copyrights. There are still some outcomes of some of the matters that were addressed, that are still pending, and some that are not disposed. The amount of money that Novell was due was still in the process of being worked out. In 2008 $2.5 million was awarded to Novell. In 2009 the portion of the court summary where it states that Novell owned the copyright to Unix was reversed, but the monies was not reversed. SCO is now able to pursue its ownership of the UNIX copyright at trial. On March 30th, the jury decided that they were in favor of Novell.