(November 17, 2016, 5:58 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — An owner of patents relating to two-way communications asks the U.S. Supreme Court in an Oct. 21 petition to answer whether the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals erred in ordering entry of judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) on a ground not presented in a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 50(b) motion in the district court, “even though the ground presented a purely legal question” (Eon Corp. IP Holdings LLC v. Silver Spring Networks Inc., No. 16-551, U.S. Sup.)....