Supreme Court Won't Hear Shell Case Over Benzene Patent

By Adam Lidgett (January 9, 2017, 5:47 PM EST) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied an inventor's petition challenging a Federal Circuit ruling saying that Shell Oil Co. did not infringe a patent covering a method of producing benzene, shooting down his bid to get the high court to clarify whether technical terms may be defined without the performance of claim construction....

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