"The Court, therefore, finding good cause shown hereby grants SCO Group's motion for leave to file amended pleadings," U.S. Magistrate Judge Brooke C. Wells wrote in the ruling. (Amended pleadings refer to the legal document in which SCO has added the copyright infringement claim.)

Allowing SCO to add the copyright infringement claims to the suit is expected to bump up potential damages by $2 billion for each claim, which would bring the potential damages to $5 billion.

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