Congress created the U.S. Court of Customs Appeals to hear appeals from decisions of the Board of General Appraisers (later the U.S. Customs Court), which had been established in 1890 to hear controversies related to appraisals of imported goods and classifications of tariffs. In 1929, Congress expanded the court’s jurisdiction to include appeals from the Patent Office in patent and trademark cases and renamed the court the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals. In 1982, the court was abolished and both its jurisdiction and its judges were transferred to the new U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

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U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals: Judges