Legal Opinion
Peter Scheiber v. Dolby Laboratories, Inc., and Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 1, 2002No. 01-2466PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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 1988 for infringement of his patents. The parties settled the suit by agreeing that Scheiber would license his patents to Dolby in exchange for royalties. The last U.S. patent covered by the agreement was scheduled to expire in May 1993, while the last Canadian patent was not…
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