Groklaw: SCO Would Like A Month's Delay to Get a Patent Attorney

"SCO filed a motion in Utah on November 26 asking for a month's extra time to answer IBM's third set of interrogatories. IBM asked them for all facts relating to their affirmative defenses. That's too much to ask them to finish on time, SCO argues, because they asserted 26 affirmative defenses, so that's like 26 questions instead of just one.

"Also, they point out there is a motion to strike three of those affirmative defenses. What if IBM wins that motion, SCO seems to be saying? Then we'd only have 23 affirmative defenses, so it'd be wasteful to provide all the facts about those three affirmative defenses..."

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