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- Title: Differentiating the Federal Circuit.
- Author : Missouri Law Review
- Release Date : January 22, 2011
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 297 KB
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I. INTRODUCTION The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was established on October 1, 1982, as an "intermediate appellate court whose jurisdiction was defined by subject matter rather than geography, and whose decisions would establish nationwide precedent on subjects as to which it had exclusive appellate jurisdiction." (1) The Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1982 (2) established two new courts: the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) and the United States Court of Federal Claims (3) while terminating two courts: the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals (CCPA) (4) and the United States Court of Claims. (5) The Federal Circuit issued its first opinion on October 28, 1982, and in that opinion held binding as precedent "the holdings of our predecessor courts, the United States Court of Claims and the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, announced by those courts before the close of business September 30, 1982." (6) In its first opinion the Federal Circuit established that it was unique in many ways.