Court's residency rule may fall

The Senate Judiciary Committee recently adopted a major amendment to pending patent-reform legislation which 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. The Federal Circuit is the only federal appellate court with a residency requirement.

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