111th Congress > House > Vote 1634

Date: 2010-12-17

Result: 371-1 (Passed)

Clerk session vote number: 651

Vote Subject Matter: Government Management / Government Organization

Bill number: HR628

Question: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment

Description: An act to establish a pilot program in certain United States district courts to encourage enhancement of expertise in patent cases among district judges

Bill 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 (...show more) so designated.

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Bill titles: To establish a pilot program in certain United States district courts to encourage enhancement of expertise in patent cases among district judges.

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