(January 28, 2016, 4:15 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — An appellate court’s ruling finding three companies liable for $5 million in damages for infringing a patent for a traffic light switching device does not conflict with 123-year-old precedent set by the U.S. Supreme Court, Global Traffic Technologies LLC (GTT) argues in a Jan. 11 brief asking the high court to deny review of whether a patent number needs to be printed on a product for its owner to collect on it (STC, Inc. v. Global Traffic Technologies LLC, No. 15-592, U.S. Sup.)....