IBM’s “Complete Defense” To Any SCO Claim of Copyright Infringement – Transcribers Needed

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 14, 2010

“Back in 2006, IBM filed a document in the SCO v. IBM litigation
that includes five reasons IBM told the court it has what it called
“a complete defense” to any SCO claim of copyright infringement,
even if SCO had any UNIX copyrights, which a jury in Utah has just
ruled it doesn’t.

“It talks about ELF, Streams, all the oldies and goodies, the
claims that survived Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells’s order granting
IBM’s motion to limit SCO’s claims as a sanction. Most of SCO’s
list of allegedly infringed materials, filed by SCO under seal, was
tossed for lack of specificity. It wasn’t a long list, in any case,
as you will see, judging from IBM’s math.

“I just noticed we never did this memorandum as text. Can anyone
help by doing an OCR for us, so we can add it to our collection on
Groklaw? Before you say yes, it’s long, in two parts, IBM’s
Redacted Memorandum in Support of its Motion for Summary Judgment
on its Claim for Declaratory Judgment of Non-infringement (IBM’s
Tenth Counterclaim}:”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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