(September 5, 2017, 12:06 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A deeply divided Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Sept. 1 rejected a request for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc of a March ruling that upheld a $36 million lost profits award in a patent case (Mentor Graphics Corp. v. Synopsys Inc., et al., Nos. 2015-1470, -1554, -1556, Fed. Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 16854)....