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After lying dormant for nearly five years, the case which SCO filed against IBM back in 2003 is back on the docket of the US federal court in Utah.

The website Groklaw, which waged a tireless campaign against the SCO Group after it filed a case against IBM in 2003 for "misappropriation of trade secrets, tortious interference, unfair competition and breach of contract, has decided it is time to put up the shutters.

The SCO Group was yesterday (US time) denied a fresh trial by the district court of Utah to examine its claim to own the IP for UNIX and this looks to be the end of the road for the long-running litigation.

Novell, which put itself on the block some months ago, has sought expressions of interest from suitors by the end of the week, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

A jury in Utah has awarded the ownership of the UNIX copyrights to Novell, ending a long-running battle with SCO.

An appeals court in the long-running case between SCO and Novell has ruled that a decision on who owns the copyrights to UNIX must be decided by a jury and not a judge.