Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1981

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1981 - Title I: United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and United States Claims Court - Establishes the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, composed of all Federal judicial districts and consisting of 12 judges, who shall be the judges of the Court of Claims and the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals on the effective date of this Act. Grants the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit exclusive jurisdiction over: (1) patent, copyright, and trademark appeals from district courts (except cases involving copyrights or trademarks and no other issues, which shall continue to be appealed to the circuit courts); (2) appeals of claims against the Government (except cases under the Federal Tort Claims Act which shall continue to be appealed to the circuit courts); (3) appeals from the United States Claims Court; (4) certain other trademark and patent appeals not involving de novo review; (5) appeals from final decisions of the U.S. Court of International Trade; (6) appeals from final determinations of the U.S. International Trade Commission relating to unfair practices in import trade; (7) certain findings of the S…