STANDARD OIL CO. v. MONTEDISON, S.p.A.

Civ. A. No. 4319.

431 F.Supp. 1064 (1977)

STANDARD OIL COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. MONTEDISON, S.p.A., et al., Defendants. PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. MONTEDISON, S.p.A., et al., Defendants. E. I. du PONT de NEMOURS & CO., Plaintiff, v. MONTEDISON, S.p.A., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

On Motion for Clarification and Reargument—May 4, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Richards, III, of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Del., John Kelton, Thomas V. Heyman and Maxim H. Waldbaum, of Watson, Leavenworth, Kelton & Taggart, New York City, Arthur G. Gilkes, Chicago, Ill., Thomas F. Reddy, Jr., Gerald J. Flintoft and Stanton Lawrence, III, of Pennie & Edmonds, New York City, for Standard Oil Co. (Indiana).

C. Waggaman Berl, Jr., Wilmington, Del., Sidney Neuman and Harry J. Roper, of Neuman, Williams, Anderson & Olson, Chicago, Ill., Eugene E. Innis and Donald J. Quigg, of Bartlesville, Okl., for Phillips Petroleum Co.

Roger A. Hines and Earl Handley, of Legal Department, Du Pont Co., Wilmington, Del., Louis F. Reed, Fish & Neave, New York City, for E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.

Edmund D. Lyons, of Morris, James, Hitchens & Williams, Wilmington, Del., George B. Finnegan, Jr., Jerome G. Lee, David H. Pfeffer, Alfred P. Ewert and Stephen R. Smith, of Morgan, Finnegan, Pine, Foley & Lee, New York City, for Montedison, S.p.A.


CALEB, M. WRIGHT, Senior District Judge.

Once again this Court must consider whether plaintiffs in this action may be allowed to amend their complaints1 to add allegations of fraud and inequitable conduct by the defendant in connection with an interference proceeding in the Patent Office. When the motions were first presented in 1975, this Court held that the only issues properly triable in an appeal from a decision of the Board of Patent...

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