The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has approved the Northern District of Texas and the Eastern District of Texas to participate in a pilot program that will funnel patent suits to specific judges inside their respective jurisdictions.
Currently, federal patent suits are randomly assigned to a U.S. district judge who sits in the district where the suit is filed. But under the pilot program, a judge who gets such an assignment could decline to accept the case, and the suit then would be randomly assigned to a judge designated to hear patent suits in the same district. Congress authorized the program in H.R. 628, which President Barack Obama signed into law on Jan. 4.
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