legislation: 111-s-299

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111-s-299 111 s 299 A bill to establish a pilot program in certain United States district courts to encourage enhancement of expertise in patent cases among district judges. Law 2009-01-22 2009-01-22 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Senate Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA] PA R S000709 0 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. 2019-11-15T21:57:17Z https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/senate-bill/299

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