Mealey's (November 1, 2017, 7:48 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — An oil and gas service provider that prevailed in an inter partes review (IPR) proceeding in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (PTO’s) Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), tells the U.S. Supreme Court in an Oct. 23 respondent brief that the process is an agency “error-correction mechanism” that does not deprive any patent litigants of their right to a jury trial under the Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (Oil States Energy Services LLC v. Greene’s Energy Group LLC, No. 16-712, U.S. Sup.)....