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SCO Fires Off Lawsuit Against Novell: Page 2 of 2

SCO is seeking preliminary and permanent injunctive relief as well as damages, according to the statement. The requested injunction would "require Novell to assign to SCO all copyrights that Novell has wrongfully registered, prevent Novell from representing any ownership interest in those copyrights, and require Novell to retract or withdraw all representations it has made regarding its purported ownership of those copyrights.

"SCO takes this action today given Novell's recent and repeated announcements regarding their claimed ownership of the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights," Mark Heise, partner with Boies, Schiller and Flexner LLP, said in a statement. "SCO has received many questions about Novell's actions from potential customers, investors and the press. Although SCO owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights, Novell's efforts to claim ownership of these copyrights has forced this action."

Linux proponents have howled that SCO is fighting a desparate battle over technology it does not own. SCO executives maintain that the code is rightfully SCO's intellectual property and was misappropriated for use in Linux.