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Novell Responds to SCO's Objections to Its Bill of Costs (and Some Bankruptcy Bills)

By Pamela Jones et al.

Novell has responded [PDF] to SCO's Objections to Novell's Bill of Costs, submitted as the prevailing party in SCO v. Novell.

Novell defends its Bill of Costs generally, in all the four categories that SCO listed objections to -- room rental fees, video fees, other deposition costs, and deposition costs concerning the SCO v. IBM litigation. Novell says it will withdraw a paltry $2,522.74 in conference room charges, but defends all the rest of its costs. SCO had objected to $50,586.14 in Novell's costs out of the total of $124,331.70, so a $2,522.74 reduction isn't much.

SCO also is objecting to video syncing fees -- syncing the video with the transcripts, so as to make the video searchable by keyword. SCO had cited a case -- In re Williams Secs. Litig.-WCG Subclass -- but Novell points out the case actually supports Novell, which we had noticed too. Novell attaches it as Exhibit 3 [PDF], and we have it here as plain text.

SCO *didn't* contest, Novell points out, most of the bill of costs, and it didn't contest that each of the depositions for which Novell seeks to recover costs were "reasonably necessary to the litigation of the case", which is the standard.

We also have some boring filings in the bankruptcy, like an 18th bill from Tanner. 18th. It covers March, so here's hoping Tanner is lining up some new customers. I'm thinking this revenue stream might not spring eternal.

Full post as published by Groklaw on April 04, 2009 (boomark / email).