14 REPORT OF THE PATENT COMMITTEE 



justices of the Supreme Court, shall be paid as part of the expenses of the 

 court. The court shall have power, in its discretion, to appoint a reporter and 

 to fix by order his salary or other compensation and direct the form and man- 

 ner of the official publication of its decisions. 



SEC. 5. That the chief justice of the United States Court of Patent Appeals 

 shall receive a salary of $12,000 per year. The circuit judges of the United 

 States sitting as associate judges of the same court shall each receive the 

 salary allowed him by law as a circuit judge, and in addition thereto during the 

 time of his service as associate judge of the United States Court of Patent 

 Appeals, but not longer, such additional sum as will make his entire compensa- 

 tion during that service $11,500 per annum. The district judges sitting as as- 

 sociate judges of the United States Court of Patent Appeals shall each receive a 

 salary allowed to him by law as district judge, and, in addition thereto, during 

 the term of his service as associate judge of the United States Court of Patent 

 Appeals, but no longer, such additional sum as will make his entire compensa- 

 tion during that service, $11,500 per annum. All the said salaries shall be 

 payable in twelve equal monthly installments. The time during which any 

 judge shall serve in said court shall be deemed continuous service with that 

 in any other court of the United States, before or after such service within the 

 meaning and intent of section seven hundred and fourteen of the Revised 

 Statutes. The additional compensation received by a circuit or district judge 

 while sitting as associate judge of the United States Court of Patent Appeals 

 shall not be taken into account in determining the amount to be received by 

 him after retirement. 



SEC. 6. That the United States Court of Patent Appeals shall have juris- 

 diction to hear and determine appeals and writs of error from final judgments 

 and decrees in the district courts of the United States in cases arising under 

 the laws of the United States relating to patents for inventions, and from 

 final judgments and decrees in cases arising under the laws of the United 

 States relating to patents for inventions rendered by any other court having 

 jurisdiction under the laws of the United States to hear and decide such cases 

 in the first instance: Provided, however, That it shall have no jurisdiction in 

 cases originating in the Court of Claims. All such appeals shall be taken within 

 six months after the entry of the order, judgment, or decree sought to be re- 

 viewed. The practice, procedure, and forms to be observed in the taking, 

 hearing, and determination of such appeals and writs of error shall conform to 

 the practice, procedure, and forms observed in like cases in the Supreme Court 

 of the United States, subject to such rules and regulations as shall be pre- 

 scribed by the court. 



SEC. 7. That whenever, by an interlocutory order or decree in a district 

 court of the United States or other court having jurisdiction under the laws of 

 the United States to hear and decide in the first instance cases arising under 

 the patent laws, in a case in which an appeal may be taken from the final de- 

 cree of such court to the United Sates Court of Patent Appeals, an injunction 



