Lighting Ballast Control has enlisted former Solicitor General Paul Clement to make its case to the U.S. Supreme Court for judicial deference toward claims construction in patent cases.

The Bancroft partner will petition the high court to overturn a rule laid down by the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals 16 years ago in Cybor v. FAS Technologies. The Federal Circuit itself stopped just short of doing so earlier this year in an en banc decision.