(January 5, 2017, 11:50 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a letter sent to counsel on Jan. 4, Chief Justice G. John Roberts Jr. revealed that despite his December participation in oral arguments, he will take no part in the U.S. Supreme Court’s upcoming decision in the patent dispute between Life Technologies Corp. and Promega Corp. (Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp., No. 14-1538, U.S. Sup.)....