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On July 26, 2011, Judges Lynn, Godbey and Kinkeade participated in a panel discussion sponsored by the Dallas Bar Association Intellectual Property Section to discuss implementation of the Patent Pilot Program in the Northern District of Texas. Judge Lynn began the discussion by reporting that Chief Judge Fitzwater just issued Special Order No. 3-287 concerning [...]

The Northern District of Texas has been selected to participate in the Patent Pilot Program. The Patent Pilot Program is a 10-year program to enhance district court judges’ expertise in patent cases. To be eligible to participate, courts had to be among the 15 district courts in which the largest number of patent cases were [...]

The Northern District of Texas was recently selected as one of fourteen district courts to participate in the Patent Pilot Program scheduled to span the next ten years. As a participant in the Patent Pilot Program, patent cases filed in the N.D. Tex. will first be randomly assigned to all district judges, regardless whether such [...]

On March 18, 2011, the Northern District of Texas applied to be one of six district courts to participate in the Patent Pilot Program that was recently signed into law. The pilot program will run for 10 years after the participating courts are designated, with periodic reports submitted to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees [...]