SCO suffered defeat after defeat in "SCO v. IBM" and its various other court cases, and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2007. However, despite the courts finding that SCO did not own the copyrights (see above), and SCO's lawsuit-happy CEO Darl McBride no longer running the company, the bankruptcy trustee in charge of SCO-in-bankruptcy decided to press on with some portions he claimed remained relevant in the "SCO v. IBM" lawsuit. He could apparently afford to do this because SCO's main law firm in "SCO v. IBM" had signed an agreement at the outset to represent SCO for a fixed amount of money no matter how long the case took to complete.