THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS for the Federal Circuit is unique in several ways, but a move is afoot to make it less of an anomaly in one key way.

The Senate Judiciary Committee recently adopted a major amendment to pending patent-reform legislation, which, among many provisions, would eliminate a 25-year-old statutory requirement that every active judge and the chief judge of the Federal Circuit must live within 50 miles of the court’s home base, the District of Columbia.

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