Mealey's (October 4, 2016, 9:14 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A dispute over the proper standard for disregarding or crediting the technical testimony of qualified experts when overturning a jury verdict of direct patent infringement will not be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in an upcoming term in light of an Oct. 3 denial of certiorari; the court also turned away a petition that posed the question whether the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals erred in holding that there must be a proven reasonable expectation of success for a claimed combination invention to be deemed obvious (Commil USA LLC v. Cisco Systems Inc., No. 15-1446; E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. MacDermid Printing Solutions LLC, No. 15-1777, U.S. Sup.)....