Inventor Files Suit Against Local Printing Business

The former owner of packaging firm Discom Technologies has filed suit against buyer Harding Poorman Group Inc. and subsidiary SPG Graphics, alleging he was shorted a percentage of Discom sales he was to have collected after the sale. Jeffrey S. Combs also alleges in the suit brought last month in Marion Superior Court that the Indianapolis graphics and publishing company later dissolved Discom, rendering his remaining 20-percent stake worthless.

Combs devised and patented a method to bind compact discs and their sleeves into printed materials. The vinyl compact disc sleeve can run through binding equipment with the disc enclosed,