UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF NEVADA
SECOND AMENDED
GENERAL ORDER NO. 2011-03
PATENT PILOT PROGRAM
The judges of the Court have elected to participate in the Patent Pilot Program (“the
Program”) established pursuant to Pub L. No. 111-349, 124 Stat. 3674; therefore, the Court’s
participation is subject to the promulgated procedures of the Program and the following:
1) A judge of this Court wishing to volunteer to participate in the Program shall do so by
notifying the chief judge. Chief Gloria M. Navarro, Judge Miranda M. Du, and Judge Robert
C. Jones are the designated program judges for the District of Nevada. If necessary to
retain the minimum number of judges required to continue participating in the Program,
the chief judge has the authority to replace designated program judges and/or add other
volunteering judges.
2) The Program began on Monday, September 19, 2011, and continues for ten years.
3) Any judge who is not a designated program judge may decline the assignment of a newly
filed patent or plant variety protection case and must transfer it, within 30 days of the filing
of the case, for random reassignment by the Clerk of Court to one of the designated
program judges. Otherwise, that case will remain on the non-designated judge’s docket
and, if necessary, may be transferred to another non-designated judge’s docket but may
not later be transferred to a designated program judge. A case that is a re-filing of a
previously dismissed case in this district that was not originally assigned to a designated
program judge is not eligible for transfer to a program judge.
4) The Clerk of Court shall establish a separate random program assignment procedure for
use in the reassignment of cases transferred to the designated program judges. If
necessary, the chief judge has the authority to implement a process for caseload
equalization between the designated program judges and the non-designated judges.
18 day of September, 2018.
Approved this ____
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Gloria M. Navarro
Chief United States District Judge
