Mealey's (February 17, 2021, 1:22 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In what it described as a case pertaining to the “narrow question of contract interpretation,” a divided Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 11 agreed with a Texas federal judge that a release granted to an entity and its “affiliates” applies to an appellee, thereby barring the grantor of the release from levying claims of patent infringement....