( October 30, 2024, 2:28 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Days before a trial is set to begin in a Massachusetts federal court, a panel of the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Oct. 29 rejected in a per curiam order a plastics company’s bid for a writ of mandamus instructing the District Court to dismiss counterclaims by a defendant company in a patent dispute, holding that the plaintiff company did not satisfy the standard for a writ of mandamus....