In re Roberts

 
APPEAL NO.
Misc. No. 120
OP. BELOW
DCT
SUBJECT
Patent
AUTHOR
Markey

Question(s) Presented

Does the Federal Circuit have jurisdiction over a petition for a writ of mandamus ordering the district court to reinstate a “judgment . . . from which a notice of appeal was filed before October 1, 1982, and over which the Seventh Circuit had and has exercised exclusive jurisdiction?”

Holding

No. “Nothing whatever in the statute creating this court gave it jurisdiction to reach back and redo anything done by a coordinate court of appeals.”