I have seen several websites offering legal analysis of the SCO case that are based on what I would call "How I Think the Law Ought To Be". Such arguments, moral or ethical arguments, although of value for other purposes, will have no influence on a judge, because that isn't his job. That's for the legislature. His job is to interpret what the law currently is. I apologize I have no time today to put this in any logical order.
So to help you think the way the judge will be thinking, so you can think of something or notice something that could prove helpful, here are some legal resources explaining how the law is currently.
Harvard's Basic Intellectual Property Primers - Includes a section on Contract Law, and Trade Secrets:
-- Contract Law in Cyberspace, by Larry Lessig, David Post, and Eugene Volokh
Basic Framework
How Do You Accept Offers?
Contracts of Adhesion
The Terms of the Contract
Copyright Issues and the Internet - A Link Digest
Internet Legal Resource Guide their
Utah statutes page, with a Utah-only Google search tool
Cornell Law School's Legal Information institute
National Federation of Paralegal Associations' Legal Resources
LawGuru Search Page
Digital Copyright
FindLaw
Nolo
Tech Law Journal
Bitlaw on Trademarks
US Patent and Trademark Office
SSRN.Com's Legal articles search page
LLRX
Cyberspace Law Institute (papers on cyberspace law issues; courses on cyberspace law issues, and interactive forms
Understanding the Law in Cyberspace
Emory Law Library Federal Courts Finder
Washburn University School of Law's WashLaw Web
Harvard Journal of Law and Technology
Boston University School of Law's Journal of Science & Technology Law
Phillips Nizer Internet Library
Yahoo's page of Law Libraries
Cornel Law School's Legal Information Institute's Supreme Court Collection, searchable
The 'Lectric law library Reference Room, with dictionary, lexicon, legal topics
Oyez Oyez Oyez, Northwestern University's The Oyez Project, US Supreme Court Multimedia Database
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