S. 299 · 111th Congress
A bill to establish a pilot program in certain United States district courts to encourage enhancement of expertise in patent cases among district judges.
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Arlen Specter
- Introduced
- 2009-01-22
- Latest action
- 2009-01-22 · Introduced in Senate
Summary
Establishes a pilot program in certain U.S. district courts under which: (1) those district judges who request to hear cases involving patent or plant variety protection issues are designated by the chief judge to hear them; (2) such cases are randomly assigned to the district court judges, regardless of whether they are designated; (3) a judge not designated to whom such a case is assigned may decline to accept the case; and (4) a case so declined is randomly reassigned to one of those judges so designated.