SCO vs Novell

On September 19, 1995, the Santa Cruz Operations (SCO) and Novell agreed on an Asset Purchase Agreement (APA) Several years later SCO stated that they owned Unix and wanted to start charging licensing fees. Novell claimed they never sold the copyrights to SCO, therefore SCO has no right to say they own Unix and have no right to charge licensing fees. SCO was standing there ground saying that they had documentation to support these facts. Novell continued to run business as usual, and started copyrighting the Unix product. Shortly thereafter SCO filed a slander of title. After a lot of battles in court and many years Novell ultimately won a judgment of two point five million dollars. The total process took about seven years. (References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_v._Novell)