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`AMENDED
`STANDING ORDER
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`11 MISC. 00415 (LAP)
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`UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
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`IN RE: IMPLEMENTATION OF
`PATENT PILOT PROGRAM
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`It appearing that the Court has elected to participate in the Pilot Project for Patent Cases
`established pursuant to Pub L. No. 111-349, 124 Stat. 3674.
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`Effective November 21, 2011, the Court's participation in the Patent Pilot Project will
`commence and shall include pro se cases. The Pilot program will be subject to the following
`procedures:
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`(1) When a designated Pilot judge receives a patent case on initial assignment, the case
`shall be assigned to that judge for all purposes, without further notice to the
`Assignment Committee and the Case Assignment Unit.
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`(2) When a judge not participating in the Pilot (non-designated judge) receives a newly(cid:173)
`filed patent case, the non-designated judge must decide whether to retain or offer the
`case to a Pilot judge within 30 days of assignment. If the case is not transferred
`within the 30-day period, that patent case will not be part of the Pilot unless the
`Assignment Committee directs otherwise. When transferring the case, the non(cid:173)
`designated judge will follow the standard procedures for transferring a case.
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`(3) When a non-designated judge informs the Assignment Committee and the Case
`Assignment Unit that he or she wishes to offer the case to a Pilot judge, the case shall
`be wheeled out to a Pilot judge in the ordinary manner from the deck referred to
`below. That judge will have five business days in which to determine whether he or
`she will accept the case. If the first Pilot judge to whom a case is offered determines
`not to accept it, the case shall be wheeled out to another Pilotj udge for determination
`of whether to accept the case or not. This procedure shall be repeated until either (i)
`a Pilot judge accepts the case or (ii) all Pilot judges have determined not to accept
`it. In the event of (ii), the originally-assigned judge shall be informed that the case
`is not part of the Pilot project, and he or she shall retain the case.
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`To further ensure fairness in the distribution of workload among judges, the Office
`of the Clerk will use a separate assignment deck for cases transferred from non(cid:173)
`designated judges to Pilot judges. Each designated Pilot judge will have one card in
`the Pilot deck, and assignments of cases transferred to the Pilot deck will be made
`by lot.
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`Equalization credit in the assignment category in which the patent case was initially
`assigned shall be provided to both the Pilot judge and the district judge from whom
`a case is reassigned.
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`Dated: New York, New York
`March ~'/ , 2012
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`Loretta A. Preska
`Chief United States District Judge