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The SCO Litigation - From Soup to Nuts
Sunday, August 03 2008 @ 07:15 AM EDT

We have a new permanent page, SCO Litigation - From Soup to Nuts a table showing the main events in all the SCO and SCO-related litigation, thanks to Erwan's creativity. Our hope is that it will help you to keep track of this very complex saga. Now that the SCO v. Novell trial is over, we could be seeing some action in the other cases, and this should help you to recall where they left off.

If you see any mistakes or feel we should add anything to the table, sing out, will you? We've been working on refining it behind the scenes, and we've tried to incorporate corrections and suggestions. But now it's ready for prime time. Thanks, everyone. I'll post the table here also, to make it easier for you to work on any improvements.

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IBM: SCO Group v. International Business Machines, Inc., Utah District Court [Timeline]


RH: Red Hat, Inc v. SCO Group, District Court of Delaware [Timeline]



Novell: SCO Group v. Novell, Inc, Utah District Court [Timeline]




SUSE: SUSE Linux GmbH (Germany) v. The SCO Group, inc (USA), ICC International Court of Arbitration





AZ: SCO Group v. AutoZone, District Court of Nevada [Timeline]






DC: SCO Group v. Daimler-Chrysler Corp, Oakland County 6th Judicial Circuit Court [Timeline]







Yarro: The Canopy Group, Inc. et al v. Ralph J. Yarro III et al. / Yarro et al v. Kreidel et al, Fourth Judicial District Court, Utah County








BK: SCO Bankruptcy, Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware [Timeline]

2003
06-Mar-2003






IBM Caldera Systems, Inc., d/b/a The SCO Group, files complaint against IBM in Utah state court, Third Judicial District, Salt Lake County [Text]. Case removed from Utah District Court on March 25, 2003 to federal court on IBM's [01] Notice of Removal, to US District Court for the District of Utah; case assigned to Judge Dale Kimball on March 26
04-Aug-2003






RH [01] Complaint filed by Red Hat against SCO Group.










2004
20-Jan-2004






Novell [0] Complaint filed by SCO Group in Utah state court, in the Third Judicial District Court of Salt Lake County [Text]. [01] Case removed to federal court, US District Court for the District of Utah, on Novell's Notice of Removal [text] on February 6, 2004 and assigned to Judge Dale Kimball
03-Mar-2004






AZ [01] Complaint filed against AutoZone by SCO Group [Text]








DC Complaint filed against Daimler Chrysler by SCO Group in Michigan state court, Oakland County, 6th Judicial Circuit Court [pdf] [Text]
06-Apr-2004






RH [34] Memorandum Order denying SCO's Motion to Dismiss - [09] SCO's Opening Brief in Support [text]; [13] Red Hat's Answer Brief; [text]; case is stayed pending resolution of Utah litigation between SCO and IBM; parties shall each submit a letter every 90 days as to the status of the Utah litigation; if the Utah litigation is not proceeding in an orderly and efficient fashion the court may reconsider the stay [Text]
21-Jul-2004






DC DaimlerChrysler's [April 14, 2004] Motion for Summary Disposition [text] granted, with one exception, whether SCO's demand for certification by licensees within 30 days was reasonable, which the judge ruled could not be settled on summary judgment [Eyewitness Reports of Hearing] [Article] [Transcript of hearing - order from the bench]
06-Aug-2004






AZ [35] Order on AutoZone's Motion for Stay is granted. Parties to submit a letter every 90 days. AutoZone's [09] Motion for Transfer [text] is denied without prejudice [Text]
17-Dec-2004






Yarro Yarro replaced as CEO of Canopy Group by William Mustard. [Article]
21-Dec-2004






DC Stipulated Order Without Prejudice, dismissing "SCO Group, Inc.'s claim for breach of contract for Defendant DaimlerChrysler Corporation's alleged failure to respond to the request for certification in a timely manner", SCO's last remaining claim, closing the case [Text]
29-Dec-2004






DC SCO Files Appeal [Article]










2005
21-Jan-2005






DC [6] Order: Dismissal - Administrative - Jurisdiction [Article]
29-Jan-2005






Yarro Yarro et al sue Canopy Group [complaint; text] for unlawful ouster; Canopy files countersuit [text]
02-Mar-2005






DC File Closed-Out
08-Mar-2005






Yarro Yarro-Canopy cases settle










2006
10-Apr-2006





SUSE SUSE Linux GmbH files request for arbitration with the Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris, pursuant to the terms of the UnitedLinux contracts. [ICC Rules]
28-Jun-2006






IBM [718] Order granting in part IBM's Motion to Limit SCO's Claims . Signed by Judge Brooke C. Wells on 28-Jun-2006. [Text]
25-Sep-2006






IBM Partial Summary Judgment Motions [Table] [IBM's 597 Exhibits in Support of Motions]
21-Oct-2006






SUSE The Chairman of the Arbitral Tribunal issues the "Terms of Reference" for signature. This document, which provides the parties' positions, is subsequently signed by the other members of the Tribunal as well as by SCO and SUSE Linux GmbH.
29-Nov-2006





IBM [884] Order Affirming Magistrate Judge's Order of June 28, 2006. Novell to go to trial first [Text]
30-Nov-2006






IBM Magistrate Judge Brooke C. Wells granted from the bench IBM's [695] Motion to Strike Allegations in Excess of the Final Disclosures [text]. Written Order to be prepared by IBM [Article]










2007
05-Jul-2007






SUSE [142] Affidavit of Felix Imendoerffer, attached to SUSE's 141] Special Opposition to SCO's [69] Motion to Enforce the Automatic Stay in the SCO bankruptcy [article] reveals that the Swiss Tribunal addressed the parties' jurisdictional objections, completing Phase I. Rejecting SCO's jurisdictional objections, the Tribunal held that the UnitedLinux Contracts obligate SCO to arbitrate SUSE Linux GmbH's claims and certain of SCO's counterclaims in Switzerland before the Tribunal, subject to Swiss law. Hearing set for December 3-14, 2007.
10-Aug-2007






Novell [377] Memorandum Decision and Order on Partial Summary Judgments. Resolves: [147] Novell's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment or Preliminary Injunction is granted in part and denied in part;
[180] SCO's Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment or Partial Summary Judgment on Novell's Third, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Counterclaims is granted in part and denied in part;
[171] Novell's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment on its Fourth Claim is granted;
[220] SCO's Cross-Motion for Partial Summary Judgment on Novell's Fourth Claim is denied;
[258] SCO's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment on its First, Second, and Fifth Claims and Novell's First Claim is denied;
[271] Novell's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment on Copyright Ownership of SCO's Second Claim for Breach of Contract and Fifth Claim for Unfair Competition is granted;
[273] Novell's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment on SCO's Non-Compete Claims in its Second and Fifth Claims is granted in part and denied in part;
[275] Novell's Motion for Summary Judgment on SCO's First Claim for Slander of Title and Third Claim for Specific Performance is granted;
and [277] Novell's Motion for Summary Judgment on SCO's First Claim for Slander of Title for Failure to Establish Special Damages is ruled moot. [Article] [Text]
14-Sep-2007

BK [01] Chapter 11 Voluntary Petition of The SCO Group, Inc. (Attachments: (1) Board Resolutions, (2) Certification and List of 20 Largest Unsecured Creditors, (3) Certification and List of Equity Security Holders, (4) Corporate Ownership Statement, (5) Certification and Creditor Matrix) [SCO Operations and SCO Group's Creditor Matrix as text] [Article] [Article]. This stays all pending SCO litigation.
14-Nov-2007





BK [204] Order Granting Debtor The SCO Group, Inc.'s Motion To Enforce The Automatic Stay [in the SUSE arbitration] (related document(s) [69] [141]). Order signed on 13-Nov-2007.
27-Nov-2007





BK [233] Order granting Novell's [89] Motion For Relief From Stay to Proceed with the Lawsuit [Text]










2008
29-Apr-2008






Novell Bench Trial Begins.
Transcript, Day 1, April 29, 2008 (Opening statements, testimony by witnesses called by Novell Joseph La Sala, Chris Sontag) [Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Text]
Transcript, Day 2, April 30, 2008 (Sontag continues, then Darl McBride, Greg Jones and then SCO calls first witness, John Masciaszek) [Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, text]
Transcript, Day 3, May 1, 2008 (SCO witnesses William Broderick, Jean Acheson, Jeff Hunsaker, and Jay Petersen) [Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, text],
Transcript, Day 4, May 2, 2008 (Andrew Nagle; then closing statements) [PDF, text]
16-Jul-2008






Novell [542] Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law and Order. Signed by Judge Dale A. Kimball on 16-Jul-2008. [Text]


  


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The SCO Litigation - From Soup to Nuts
Authored by: stork on Sunday, August 03 2008 @ 07:21 AM EDT
someone needs to open this

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Shouldn't that be "From Nuts to Soup"?
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, August 03 2008 @ 07:56 AM EDT
Given the psychology involved, didn't this whole mess *start* with nuts?

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The SCO Litigation - From Soup to Nuts
Authored by: brooker on Sunday, August 03 2008 @ 08:09 AM EDT
This is absolutely a work of art!

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Corrections here
Authored by: belboz on Sunday, August 03 2008 @ 08:24 AM EDT
Not that I found any myself.

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  • color anomaly - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, August 03 2008 @ 10:31 AM EDT
  • 06-apr-2004 - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, August 03 2008 @ 01:35 PM EDT
[NP] Groklaw News Picks discussion
Authored by: Aladdin Sane on Sunday, August 03 2008 @ 08:49 AM EDT
Discuss Groklaw News Picks here.

Please label your post with the title of the Groklaw News Pick to which your comment relates.

Thanks.

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"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted." --R. Pausch

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[OT] Off Topic threads
Authored by: Aladdin Sane on Sunday, August 03 2008 @ 08:52 AM EDT

Observations not related to the Groklaw story can be posted here.

You can reference your comments with HTTP links by using HTML.

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"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted." --R. Pausch

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Why is copyright a barrier to open sourcing UNIX?
Authored by: Aladdin Sane on Sunday, August 03 2008 @ 09:24 AM EDT
In the previous members only article on this excellent chart, tbogart had some really great observations for improvements to it.

Among those items he listed was:
Caldera announces difficulties with open sourcing UNIX due to issues with copyright ...
His recollections of Caldera history match mine. But looking back, why is this a problem? Each of us here knows that Open Sourcing source code does not invalidate the copyright on it.

A naïve question, I know, but isn't it time that this 'Microsoft brain damage' with regard to Open Sourced copyrighted source code be healed? We need our brains back. Open Sourcing source code affects the copyright on it not in the least. Does every lawyer, business person, and technologist not understand that by now?

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No Novell entry between 20-Jan-2004 and 10-Aug-2007
Authored by: Erwan on Sunday, August 03 2008 @ 09:34 AM EDT

There must have been one or two big filing each year in the Novell litigation that we could add without overloading the chart.

I can't spend too much time on it today but from what I remember, Novell first tried to dimiss the complaint. Then, after [29] and [75], they hired a litigator and went ruthlessly on the (counter)attack.

What else could we add? SCO's second amended complaint? Novell's counterclaims? The date PSJs were filed? End of discovery?

Any suggestion welcome

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Erwan

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Suggestion for the chart
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, August 03 2008 @ 09:37 AM EDT
It needs a large funnel at the bottom, one that spans the various lines, with
multiple $$$ going into the funnel, and with the funnel output going into the
attorney pockets.

What in incredible waste of time, money, and any shred of decency or honesty
SCOGgies and Yarro might have ever had. The line, as it exists above, is
testament to one of the largest lies in US corporate history - Microsoft - and
what they can do when the get their hooks into addle-brained people with no
moral fiber or sense of decency. Congratulations on a fine chart: you've summed
up the fiaSCO in one fell swoop.

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No IBM entry between 06-Mar-2003 and 28-Jun-2006
Authored by: Erwan on Sunday, August 03 2008 @ 09:43 AM EDT

What were the 5 or 6 big events in these 3 years of endless discovery?

Please leave your suggestions. A starting point to find ideas might be the case summary.

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Erwan

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The SCO Litigation - From Soup to Nuts
Authored by: belzecue on Sunday, August 03 2008 @ 09:55 AM EDT
That is genius, Erwan. Simple and effective.

Now, examining the schematic closely... I see that if Darl McBride boards The
SCO Group train on the IBM line at 7:30AM on March 6, 2003, and six people board
the SUSE train on the Arbitration line at 7:40AM on April 10, 2006, and the
Novell train out of Utah is running three minutes ahead of schedule on the
morning of August 10, 2007... (get comfy, this may take a while)

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The SCO Litigation - From Soup to Nuts
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, August 03 2008 @ 06:16 PM EDT
Speaking of nuts.

This article fails to list the spinoff lawsuits by nuts like Daniel Wallace and
JVM.

It fails to list nuts willing to invest millions of dollars in SCO only to lose
it all.

It fails to list nuts who have written pro SCO articles either to find SCO had
so misrepresented themselves they no longer touch the subject or the few that
fall ever deeper into more ludicrous and nonsensical statements apparently
hoping for notoriety from webpage hits or actual payoffs of some sort.

Ah, but a simple Google search shows I am misreading the title to be concerned
of all these nuts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soup_to_nuts

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