Two points people may want to note:

First: The Unix trademark is held by The Open Group. It is\r\nnot held by SCO, the SCO Group, or Caldera. See:

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• [link|http://www.UNIX-systems.org/questions_answers/faq.html|http://www.UNIX-systems.org/questions_answers/faq.html]
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Second: As Don Marti noted in a recent linux-elitists post: The SCO\r\nGroup holds no significant patents. None of the news items I've seen on\r\nthis issue has mentioned patents -- all have concerned trade secrets and\r\nthe like, with speculation that this falls out of the Monterey\r\nproject.

From Don's post:

\r\nFollowing up on my own post here.  I did a search on what happened              \r\nto the two patents assigned to the old SCO, as well as the Unix                 \r\npatents that came from USL or AT&T.                                             \r\n                                                                                \r\n    http://www.ssc.com/pipermail/atc/2003-March/000034.html                         \r\n                                                                                \r\nShort answer: SCO has no patents.                                               \r\n                                                                                \r\nIt's a little confusing, because there are two companies calling                \r\nthemseves "SCO" -- the "old SCO" was Santa Cruz Operation Inc. and              \r\nis now Tarentella.  The "new SCO" is The SCO Group, and used to                 \r\nbe Caldera.                                                                     \r\n                                                                                \r\n> 6,362,836 Universal application server for providing applications             \r\n> on a variety of client devices in a client/server network                     \r\n>                                                                               \r\n> 6,104,392 Method of displaying an application on a variety of client          \r\n> devices in a client/server network                                            \r\n                                                                                \r\n * December 2001: Santa Cruz Operation Inc. changes its name to                 \r\n   Tarantella Inc. Both of Santa Cruz Operation Inc.'s patents,                 \r\n   6,104,392 and 6,362,836, stay with Tarantella.                               \r\n                                                                                \r\nAnd also checked on Unix System Laboratories patents that went to               \r\nNovell -- but did not go to the old SCO.                                        \r\n                                                                                \r\n * November 1995: Unix System Laboratories Inc. assigns three patents           \r\n   to Novell: 5,652,854, 5,265,250 and 6,097,384.                               \r\n                                                                                \r\nNovell has assigned away only seven patents since 1980, when the                \r\nCASSIS2 records begin: two to Corel, one to Interlogis Inc. and                 \r\nthree to Volera Inc.                                                            \r\n                                                                                \r\nNovell never assigned a patent to _either_ SCO.                                 \r\n                                                                                \r\nCaldera (which now calls itself SCO) has never had a patent assigned            \r\nto it.                                                                          \r\n