Section
1541, acts June 25, 1948, ch. 646,
62 Stat. 942; June 2, 1970,
Pub. L. 91–271, title I, § 102,
84 Stat. 274; July 26, 1979,
Pub. L. 96–39, title X, § 1001(b)(4)(A),
93 Stat. 305; Oct. 10, 1980,
Pub. L. 96–417, title IV, § 401(a), title V, § 501(23), (24),
94 Stat. 1740, 1742, gave the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals exclusive jurisdiction of appeals from all final decisions of the Court of International Trade and from interlocutory orders of the Court of International Trade granting, continuing, modifying, refusing, or dissolving injunctions, or refusing to dissolve or modify injunctions, and with discretion to entertain appeals from certain orders of the Court of International Trade. See section
1295
(a)(5) of this title.
Section
1542, acts June 25, 1948, ch. 646,
62 Stat. 942; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 89(b),
63 Stat. 102, gave the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals jurisdiction of appeals from decisions of the Board of Appeals and the Board of Interference Examiners of the Patent Office as to patent applications and interferences, at the instance of an applicant for a patent or any party to a patent interference, with such appeal by an applicant to waive his right to proceed under section
63 of Title
35, and the Commissioner of Patents as to trademark applications and proceedings as provided in section
1071 of Title
15. See section
1295
(a)(4) of this title.
Section
1543, acts June 25, 1948, ch. 646,
62 Stat. 943; Oct. 10, 1980,
Pub. L. 96–417, title IV, § 401(b)(1),
94 Stat. 1740, gave the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals jurisdiction to review final determinations of the United States International Trade Commission made under section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 relating to unfair trade practices in import trade. See section
1295
(a)(6) of this title.
Section
1544, added
Pub. L. 89–651, § 8(c)(1), Oct. 14, 1966,
80 Stat. 901, gave the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals jurisdiction to review, by appeal on questions of law only, findings of the Secretary of Commerce under headnote 6 to schedule 8, part 4, of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (relating to importation of instruments or apparatus). See section
1295
(a)(7) of this title.
Section
1545, added
Pub. L. 91–577, title III, § 143(a), Dec. 24, 1970,
84 Stat. 1558, gave the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals nonexclusive jurisdiction of appeals under section 71 of the Plant Variety Protection Act, classified to section
2461 of Title
7, Agriculture. See section
1295
(a)(8) of this title.
Section
1546, added
Pub. L. 96–417, title IV, § 402(a), Oct. 10, 1980,
94 Stat. 1740, gave the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals all of the powers in law and in equity of, or conferred by statute upon, a court of appeals of the United States.