SCHEIBER v. DOLBY LABORATORIES, INC.

No. 01-2466.

293 F.3d 1014 (2002)

Peter SCHEIBER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DOLBY LABORATORIES, INC., and Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 17, 2002.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied August 1, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel J. Lueders (argued), Woodard, Emhardt, Naughton, Moriarty & McNett, Indianapolis, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

John L. Cooper, Steven R. Lowenthal, Farella, Braun & Martel, San Francisco, CA, Edward W. Harris, III (argued), Indianapolis, IN, for Defendant-Appellees.

Before POSNER, EVANS, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied August 1, 2002.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in a suit to enforce a patent licensing agreement appeals to us from the grant of summary judgment to the defendants, Dolby for short. Scheiber, the plaintiff, a musician turned inventor who held U.S. and Canadian patents on the audio system known as "surround sound," sued Dolby in 1983 for infringement of his patents. The parties settled the suit by agreeing that Scheiber...

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