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1/22/2009--Introduced.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.

1232600400 2009-01-22 Sat Nov 14 05:37:32 -0600 2009 introduced 54440 'bill':2 'case':21 'judg':24 'unit':10 'among':22 'court':13 'pilot':6 'state':11 'enhanc':16 'patent':20 'certain':9 'program':7 'district':12,23 'encourag':15 'expertis':18 'establish':4 67466 false official action 54440 1232600400 Thu Jan 22 00:00:00 -0600 2009 182139 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. S000709 1930-02-12 13782 711 Hart Senate Office Building http://specter.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm 202-228-1229 Arlen 'd':4 'pa':5 'sen':1 'arlen':2,6,8 'specter':3,7,9 M 300092 Specter Arlen_Specter Sen. Arlen Specter [D, PA] 5980 N00001604 19372 Democrat 202-224-4254 Jewish PA Arlen Specter 1.8968253968254 http://specter.senate.gov/ action 54440 1232600400 Thu Jan 22 00:00:00 -0600 2009 182139 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. introduced 54440 1232600400 Thu Jan 22 00:00:00 -0600 2009 182138