If Judge Piffer rejects the fast-track request, something legal experts said is extremely unlikely, prosecutors would face the usual lengthy preliminary phase.
Since September, the United States Patent and Trademark Office has received 2,000 fast-track requests.
The administration's request for "fast track" authority is a request for Congress to rubber-stamp a text that more than 500 corporate representatives were able to see and influence.
Mr. Qureshi said the United States had agreed to put on a fast track some longstanding Pakistani requests for military hardware.
Ever since Congress, in 1997, rejected President Clinton's request for "fast track" authority to negotiate trade agreements, American policymakers have become more and more reluctant to endorse economic integration.
For example, it has been the democrats who have objected to the president's request for fast track authority to push through the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
The same goes for his request for lawmakers to give him "fast track" authority to negotiate trade deals.
At the oil industry's request, the County has proposed an ordinance to fast track oil and gas drilling permits for the next 20 years that would shield new operations from environmental review and public notice.
Fast track is usually assigned early in development, whereas priority review may be requested along with submission of a full application.
Beatified in 1980, they have been put on a fast track to sainthood after Pope Francis waived some of the usual procedures in response to requests from the Canadian and Brazilian bishops' conferences.
Bloomingdale's buyer Robin Burns, who was on a fast track and became president of Estee Lauder, bought it and put it in the window, then followed this with a request for imaginative pillows".
