POMMER v. MEDTEST CORP.

No. 91-2175.

961 F.2d 620 (1992)

Robert J. POMMER, Sr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MEDTEST CORPORATION and Donald West, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 7, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul A. Castiglione, Peter Ordower, Law Offices of Merle Royce, Steven J. Rotunno (argued), Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, Edward T. Joyce, Raymond A. Fylstra, Joyce & Kubasiak, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

James McGurk (argued), Paul F. Harvey, Bell & McGurk, Chicago, Ill., Eugene Lieberman, Wilmette, Ill., Mark Lieberman, Irving, Tex., Raymond Goldfarb, John C. Sibrava, Scott A. Slutsky, Williams, Rutstein, Goldfarb, Sibrava & Midura, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before EASTERBROOK and KANNE, Circuit Judges, and SHARP, District Judge.


EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Medtest Corporation has a single asset: the intellectual property in a self-administered cervico-vaginal cytology testing process. Patrick Manning devised the process and together with Donald West, a lawyer, formed Medtest in December 1981 to obtain a patent and undertake development to make the process commercially attractive. Manning held 31% of the stock, West 26%, and the remainder was scattered among friends and relatives. In 1982...

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