(December 16, 2016, 8:07 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — An engineering company in a Nov. 23 petition asks the U.S. Supreme Court if an appellate court and district court erred in arbitrarily defining a factually disputed technical term of art without performing claim construction to find noninfringement of a patent (David Netzer Consulting Engineer LLC v. Shell Oil Co., et al., No. 16-713, U.S. Sup.)....