To borrow from a BLT headline, “Pilot Program Will Build Judicial Expertise in Patent Cases.”
It would be nice to see something like this in Indian law. Here is an excerpt (just replace “patent” with “Indian law”):
A congressionally-created pilot program to give district court judges greater expertise in patent cases will begin next month in most of 14 selected courts.
The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC) announced this week which district courts will be participating in the 10-year project. To be eligible to participate, courts had to be among the 15 district courts in which the largest number of patent and plant variety protections cases were filed in 2010, or be district courts that adopted or certified to the director of the AOUSC their intention to adopt local rules for patent and plant variety protection cases.
Which 15 district court would be candidates for a similar program in Indian law? Let us toss out a few suggestions: