SCO vs. Novell

SCO vs Novell was a Federal lawsuit, it started in 2004 at a Utah Court and ended up at a Federal District court. SCO group filed a lawsuit stating they were the owners of the operating system Unix, they said the owned the rights of author for Unix. On the other hand Novell have bought the operating system long time ago in 1995 from the original author AT&T and during an agreement they said that they did not transfer the whole property rights, they transferred some responsibilities to the Santa Cruz Group, but those responsibilities were only to improve and license some rights of the Unixware. So, SCO though that with those transfers they already owned the whole thing, but they only had certain rights. Then after years of counter-claims, allegations and appeals the court ruled at Novell's favor and because obviously they were the owners in the first place and they will never transfer something that will give them a big profit, SCO ended up owing Novell millions of dollars and filing for bankruptcy.