(March 3, 2017, 7:22 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fifteen law professors and two patent attorneys filed briefs on Feb. 16 in support of a patent owner’s petition to the U.S. Supreme Court asking whether a patent for a software-implemented industrial process that regulates and controls the operation of an oil rig, which was patent eligible under 35 U.S. Code Section 101 in Diamond v. Diehr, 450 U.S. 175 (1981), can be rendered patent ineligible by Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int’l, 134 S. Ct. 2347, 2354 (2014) (TDE Petroleum Data Solutions Inc. v. AKM Enterprise Inc. and DBA Mobilize Inc., No. 16-890, U.S. Sup.)....