Dr Dre drops SLS from lawsuit · Oct 29, 12:58 AM by Same 'Ol G
This just came across my desk but apparently Dr Dre has dropped his lawsuit against SLS, who is SLS you ask? Well they are a high end audio parts company that was to provide parts along with Jibe Audio and Pentgram Design Inc That Dre was planning on using to produce a series of headphones designed for studio use with the brand name “The Beats by Dr. Dre.”
What happened is a little murky and very confusing, apparently the headphone’s were to use a special technology made by SLS called ribbon-driver’s but Dr Dre was only in negotiations with Jibe Audio and Pentgram Design, is was through these companies that Dre’s product was planned using the ribbon driver technology.
But it gets even more confusing since as the negotiations were going on SLS was actually shopping the technology around and finally sold exclusive rights to the technology to DGM Audio.
The complicating factor is SLS never signed any contracts and while Dr Dre claims they had a verbal contract it doesn’t appear theirs enough evidence to prove their case and so he had no choice but to drop them from his lawsuit.
Jibe Audio, Pentgram Design Inc and Steve Lamar (the former president of SLS) are all still named in the lawsuit but we will try to keep you updated.
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