MEEHAN v. PPG INDUSTRIES, INC.

No. 85-2495.

802 F.2d 881 (1986)

John C. MEEHAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PPG INDUSTRIES, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 26, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lloyd W. Mason, Wood Dalton Phillips Mason & Rowe, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Madeline Henricks Devereux, Marshall O'Toole Gerstein Murray & Bicknell, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellee.

Before CUMMINGS, Chief Judge, BAUER and FLAUM, Circuit Judges.


CUMMINGS, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff brought this breach of contract action in 1984 when defendant stopped making him royalty payments for sales of his invention. The contract involved an assignment of rights in a "method and apparatus" invented by the plaintiff. The three patents on plaintiff's invention have since expired. Although the contract required defendant to make royalty payments to plaintiff until the expiration of all patents, defendant refused to pay royalties...

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