STANDARD OIL COMPANY v. MONTEDISON

Civ. A. No. 4319.

494 F.Supp. 370 (1980)

STANDARD OIL COMPANY (INDIANA), 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 & COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. MONTEDISON, S.p.A., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

Supplemental Opinion February 28, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

C. Waggaman Berl, Jr., Wilmington, Del., for plaintiff, Phillips Petroleum Co.; Sidney Neuman, Harry J. Roper, Kenneth R. Adamo, George S. Bosy of Neuman, Williams, Anderson & Olson, Chicago, Ill., Donald J. Quigg, Bartlesville, Okl., of counsel.

Roger A. Hines, Wilmington, Del., for plaintiff, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.; Earl L. Handley, Francis A. Paintin, Wilmington, Del., of counsel.

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


OPINION

CALEB M. WRIGHT, Senior District Judge.

This case is an appeal under 35 U.S.C.A. § 1461 from a Board of Patent Interferences ("Board") Opinion issued pursuant to 35 U.S.C.A. § 135.2 That Opinion awarded Montedison, S.p.A. ("Montedison")3 priority for the invention of solid crystalline polypropylene. Each plaintiff in this litigation, E. I. du Pont de...

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