Tech Bankruptcy
August 25, 2009
Chapter 11 Trustee appointed in SCO Bankruptcy
Every now and then I'm reminded that the SCO bankruptcy remains pending. You might recall SCO as the company that sued Novell and a number of other companies claiming that it owned copyrights to code found in the LINUX open source operating system. Almost two years ago, SCO filed a Chapter 11 petition in order to protect the company while the litigation continued. SCO is represented by Laura Davis Jones of Puchulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, LLP.
In May, the U.S. Trustee's Office in Delaware filed a motion to convert the long-standing Chapter 11 case to Chapter 7. Declining to institute such a drastic remedy, Judge Gross instead ordered a Chapter 11 bankruptcy trustee appointed. More detailed information about the decision can be found here on Groklaw. Although the order has not been appealled, a trustee has not yet been appointed.
Meanwhile, Steven Vaughan-Nichols' blog in Computerworld reports that SCO actually won a minor victory of sorts in its litigation with Novell, as the Court of Appeals reverses a prior summary judgment decision against SCO.
Labels: linux, SCO Group, unix
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