Mealey's (February 27, 2018, 10:26 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Appealing a ruling by the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals vacating its lost profits award in a patent infringement suit, a patentee tells the U.S. Supreme Court in a Feb. 23 merits brief that the Patent Act provides for such compensation when a domestic party facilitates foreign combination of an invention’s elements that result in infringement abroad (WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corp., No. 16-1011, U.S. Sup.)....