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KIDDE, INC., by its LEFEBURE DIVISION, Appellant, v. E.F. BAVIS & ASSOCIATES, INC., and Edward F. Bavis, Appellees.
    No. 83-2568.
    United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
    Submitted April 11, 1984.
    Decided June 6, 1984.
    Simmons, Perrine, Albright & Ellwood, Haven E. Simmons, David A. Hacker, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for appellant.
    Albert E. Strasser, David E. Schmit, Frost & Jacobs, Cincinnati, Ohio, for appel-lees.
    Before ROSS, ARNOLD and FAGG, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM.

Kidde, Inc., and E.F. Bavis & Associates, Inc., both manufacture automatic equipment used by banks at drive-in windows. Bavis, which holds a patent on its equipment, placed in a national banking journal an advertisement that, in effect, threatened suit for contributory infringement against any bank buying a machine that might infringe on Bavis’s patent. Kidde then brought this suit for declaratory and in-junctive relief in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, alleging that the advertisement was intended by Bavis to be understood as a reference to Kidde’s machine, that Bavis’s patent is invalid or not infringed, and that Bavis’s actions amounted to unfair competition and intentional interference with business relationships. Subject-matter jurisdiction was based in part on 28 U.S.C. § 1338 (patent cases). The District Court dismissed for want of personal jurisdiction over Bavis, an Ohio citizen.

We have no jurisdiction over this appeal. Title 28 U.S.C. § 1295 (1982) provides, in pertinent part:

(a) The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit shall have exclusive jurisdiction—
(1) of an appeal from a final decision of a district court of the United States ... if the jurisdiction of that court was based, in whole or in part, on section 1338 of this title____

Accordingly, we transfer this appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. 28 U.S.C. § 1631 (1982).