DATASCOPE CORP. v. SMEC, INC.

No. 91-1407.

962 F.2d 1043 (1992)

DATASCOPE CORP., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SMEC, INC., Defendant, and Peter Schiff, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

April 29, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stevan J. Bosses, Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto, New York City, argued, for plaintiff-appellant.

William J. Brennan, III, Smith, Stratton, Wise, Heher & Brennan, Princeton, N.J., argued, for appellee. With him on the brief, was Thomas E. Hastings.

Before ARCHER, Circuit Judge, FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and PLAGER, Circuit Judge.


FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

The sole question in this appeal from the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey is whether that court abused its discretion in denying the plaintiff in this patent infringement suit leave to amend its complaint to add as a defendant the president and principal stockholder of the defendant corporation. The motion was filed almost nine years after the plaintiff instituted its original suit, and following a liability...

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